Comments on: Distributed Objects http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/distributed-objects/ Just another Oracle weblog Fri, 17 May 2013 13:58:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/distributed-objects/#comment-37537 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:17:32 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=4631#comment-37537 Milo,

I suspect not – I think the cast() here tells Oracle which abstract data type to use when converting the variable to a table. So the thing that comes out is still an abstract data type.

]]> By: Milo http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/distributed-objects/#comment-37531 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:54:08 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=4631#comment-37531 In older versions of Oracle the construct “TABLE(m_n1_tab)” was not allowed and you had to use “TABLE( SELECT CAST( m_n1_tab AS number_type_table ) FROM DUAL )” instead. I wonder if that older way would have given Oracle the data type information it needed as well.

]]> By: Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/distributed-objects/#comment-37525 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:24:05 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=4631#comment-37525 As often happens, it took more time to decide that Oracle was behaving the way it was supposed to, rather than revealing a bug – and that took two or three hours. Once I realised what the limitation was it took about 10 minutes to come up with a workaround.

Mind you, my first workaround was a bit daft – and it was only while explaining the problem to the developer the following morning that I realised that the solution I’ve shown above was much simpler.

]]> By: Mike Johnson http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/distributed-objects/#comment-37522 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:22:07 +0000 http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/?p=4631#comment-37522 Genius! How long did it take you to figure out a solution?

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