Relation between Table Type and CLOB

Question

Hello ALL,
I am calling a procedure whose out parameter should be CLOB.
I am getting the output into a out parameter of type TABLE.
So how do we assign the table type data to CLOB variable.
Please let me know.
Kind Regards,
Kumar.

Answer 1

I presume you want to go through a pl/sql collection and agglomerate its contents to a clob. If so, this should give you teh general idea...
SQL> create or replace procedure table_to_clob
  2    (  p_owner in varchar2, p_glom out clob )
  3  as
  4      l_ntab strings;
  5      c clob;
  6  begin
  7      dbms_lob.createtemporary(c, true);
  8      select table_name bulk collect into l_ntab
  9      from all_tables
10      where owner = p_owner;
11      for i in l_ntab.first()..l_ntab.last()
12      loop
13          dbms_lob.writeappend(c, length(l_ntab(i)), l_ntab(i));
14      end loop;
15      p_glom := c;
16  end;
17  /
Procedure created.
SQL> var lc clob
SQL>
SQL> exec table_to_clob(user, :lc)
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
SQL> print lc
LC
SEARCH_NOSGFP1P2GCENTITIESDOMAINSSHIPPINGSHIP_STATUSTSTADR$MYINDEX$IDR$
SQL>Cheers, APC
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