Problem creating an nested table.

Question

Hi,
I try to create a type of mytable%rowtype:
create type test_type is table of mytable%rowtype;
The response is:
Type created with compile errors. (<- free translation from german ;)
Creating a table of varchar2(100) works as expected.
Is this a license restriction of XE or am I just too stupid for this?
Thanks in advance.
Thomas

Answer 1

As far as I know this limitation is not an XE limitation, you can check for the other editions also.
%TYPE and %ROWTYPE can be used within PL/SQL, not SQL.
DECLARE
     TYPE Cust_tab IS TABLE OF                        
          Customers_Active%ROWTYPE;
     Custs   Cust_tab;
BEGIN
     SELECT Customer_Account_Id, Effective_Date,
               Expired_Date
           BULK COLLECT INTO Custs
     FROM Customers_Active;
END;
DECLARE
   emprec    employees_temp%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
   emprec.empid := NULL; 
   emprec.deptid := 50;
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('emprec.deptname: ' || emprec.deptname);
END;
/