
User-Defined Types
In this chapter, I'll tell you about user-defined types in general and about SQL's
approach to them. First, I'll give you a solid overview of the facility and the sup-
porting technology in SQL, after which I'll cover the subject in substantial detail.
In particular, in this chapter, I'll tell you what user-defined types are and why
you might want to use them in your applications. Then I'll get more specific and
show you SQL's UDT facilities, with examples of creating UDTs and manipulating
instances of those UDTs. This discussion includes the creation and use of user-
defined functions and methods that applications ...