Will the order of elements stored in pl.sql table retains

Question

Hello Friends,
I am having a record type and the for each element of record , i am having corresponding pl.sql table type .
If i am storing the values into the records from a query and also the individual elements in the pl.sql table type will the order of data is stored as it is . ..
example...
in a record type the data is stored as ( name1 , age1 , salary1) , (name2, age2, salary2)
if i store in corresponding pl sql table type name1 , name2
age1, age2
salary1, salary2
can i relate the index of record type with that of pl/sql table type ..
pls advice
thanks/kumar

Answer 1

Kumar,
Yes, the order of elements will be the same.
Any specific reason why you would want to create a collection for each individual attribute of the record ?
You can as well declare another variable of the same record and initialize it.
A few other suggestions for your code :
1) The 2nd FOR loop can be modified to accommodate the query of the first cursor there-by eliminating one extra iteration.
SELECT MINC.FAMID,
                     MINC.MEMBNO,
                     MEMB.AGE,
                     SALARYX,
                     SALARYBX,
                     NONFARMX,
                     NONFRMBX,
                     FARMINCX,
                     FRMINCBX,
                     CU_CODE
                FROM MINC, MEMB, FMLY
               WHERE MINC.FAMID = MEMB.FAMID
                 AND MINC.MEMBNO = MEMB.MEMBNO
                 AND MINC.FAMID = FMLY.FAMID
                 AND MEMB.FAMID = FMLY.FAMID
               ORDER BY MINC.FAMID2) The collections can be alternately initialized as follows :
   v_member_rec(v_member_rec.last).FAMID := j.FAMID;
   max_earnings_tab(max_earnings_tab.last) := v_max_earnings;The tried the below example for confirmation ...
declare
type emp_rec is record
(name emp.ename%TYPE,
  dept emp.edept%TYPE,
  sal  emp.esal%TYPE
TYPE emp_rec_tab is table of emp_rec;
ert emp_rec_tab := emp_rec_tab();
TYPE ename_tab is table of varchar2(20);
ent  ename_tab := ename_tab();
TYPE edept_tab is table of number;
edt  edept_tab := edept_tab();
begin
for i in (select * from emp)
loop
     ert.extend;
     ent.extend;
     edt.extend;
     ert(ert.last).name := i.ename;
     ert(ert.last).dept := i.edept;
     ert(ert.last).sal := i.esal;
     ent(ent.last) := i.ename;
     edt(edt.last) := i.edept;
end loop;
for i in 1..ert.count
loop
     dbms_output.put_line(ert(i).name||','||ent(i));
     dbms_output.put_line(ert(i).dept||','||edt(i));
     dbms_output.put_line('');
end loop;
end;