Object type variable - Help !

Question

Hi
I want to achieve following outcome:
Create a object type e.g.
CREATE TYPE employees AS OBJECT (
employee_id NUMBER(6),
first_name VARCHAR2(20)
Then create a table type e.g
CREAT TYPE emp_table AS TABLE of employees;
So far so good.
Now I want to declare a variable of emp_table type in my
procedure and then populate it using a select clause.
Something like this:
my_employees emp_table;
insert into my_employees select id, name from table1 where id < 50;
Where table1 is some permanent table in my database.
I am not able to figure out how to achieve this.
I dont want to create a permanent table in my database for this.
I want to keep this table type variable in memory and discard it at the end
of the procedure.
Please help
Regards
Madhup

Answer 1

BULK COLLECT INTO
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96624/05_colls.htm#28329
SQL> CREATE TYPE employees AS OBJECT (
  2  employee_id NUMBER(6),
  3  first_name VARCHAR2(20)
  4  );
  5  /
Type created.
SQL> CREATE TYPE emp_table AS TABLE of employees;
  2  /
Type created.
SQL> declare
  2   my_employees emp_table := emp_table();
  3  begin
  4   select employees(empno,ename) bulk collect into my_employees from emp;
  5  end;
  6  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.Rgds.