Use treat to convert varible to a type in select statement : treat « Object Oriented Database « Oracle PL / SQL

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Use treat to convert varible to a type in select statement

 
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SQL>
SQL> create or replace
  2  type person as object (
  3   first_name varchar2(100),
  4   last_name varchar2(100),
  5   dob date,
  6   phone varchar2(100),
  7   member function get_last_name return varchar2,
  8   member function get_phone_number return varchar2 )
  9  not final
 10  /

Type created.

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SQL>
SQL> create or replace
  2  type body person as
  3    member function get_last_name return varchar2 is
  4    begin
  5      return self.last_name;
  6    end;
  7    member function get_phone_number return varchar2 is
  8    begin
  9      return self.phone;
 10    end;
 11  end;
 12  /

Type body created.

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SQL> create table person_table( p person );

Table created.

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SQL> select treat( p as person).get_last_name() from person_table p;

no rows selected

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SQL> drop table person_table;

Table dropped.

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SQL> drop type person;

Type dropped.

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