Accessing object members / attributes through SQL

Question

Hi all,
Am I being really dumb (it's been a hard day) or am I missing something - I can't seem to access the members of an object through SQL. Is this right?
For example :
SQL> create type t_test as object (name varchar2(32), age number);
2 /
Type created.
SQL> select me
2 from (select t_test('Steve',31) me from dual);
ME(NAME, AGE)
T_TEST('Steve', 31)
SQL> select me.name
2 from (select t_test('Steve',31) me from dual);
select me.name
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: "ME"."NAME": invalid identifier
I can access "ME" but not ME.NAME?!
Thanks in advance,
Steve

Answer 1

You just need one more alias:
SQL> CREATE TYPE t_test AS OBJECT
2 (name VARCHAR2 (32),
3      age NUMBER)
4 /
Type created.
SQL> SELECT me
2 FROM (SELECT t_test ('Steve', 31) me FROM DUAL)
3 /
ME(NAME, AGE)
T_TEST('Steve', 31)
SQL> SELECT a.me.name
2 FROM (SELECT t_test ('Steve', 31) me FROM DUAL) a
3 /
ME.NA
Steve