How to insert with select in table with object types

Question

I am in the proces of redesigning some tables, as i have upgraded from
personal oracle 7 to personal oracle 8i.
I have constructed an object type Address_type, which is one of the columns
in a table named DestTable.
The object type is created as follows:
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE pub.address_type
AS OBJECT
Street1 varchar2(50),
Street2 varchar2(50),
ZipCode varchar2(10));
The table is created as follows:
CREATE TABLE pub.DestTable
(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
LastName varchar2(30),
FirstName varchar2(25),
Address pub.address_type);
Inserting a single row is ok as i use the following syntax:
Insert into DestTable(1, '******* ', 'Lawrence', pub.address_type(
'500 Oracle Parkway', 'Box 59510', '95045'));
When i try to insert values into the table by selecting from another table i
cannot do it and cannot figure out what is wrong
I have used the following syntax:
Insert into DestTable
id, name, pub.address_type(Street1, Street2, ZipCode))
select
id, lastname, firstname, street1, street2, ZipCode
from SourceTable;
I have also tried the following syntax:
Insert into DestTable
id, name, pub.address_type(Address.Street1, Address.Street2,Address.ZipCode))
select
id, lastname, firstname, street1, street2, ZipCode
from SourceTable;
What is wrong here ?
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Answer 1

Magnus,
1. Check out the examples on 'insert with subquery' in http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/server.817/a85397/state21b.htm#2065648
2. Correct your syntax that repeated the column definition after "insert into ..."
Insert into DestTable
id, name, pub.address_type(Street1, Street2, ZipCode))
select
id, lastname, firstname, street1, street2, ZipCode
from SourceTable;
Regards,
Geoff
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