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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Collection Operators

You can use the following operators on collections of data in PL/SQL:

COUNT

Returns count.

DELETE[([ m,] n )]

Deletes all elements (if no parameters), element n (if only n present), or between element m and n (if both present).

EXISTS( n )

Returns TRUE if element n exists.

EXTEND

Increases the size of a collection.

FIRST

Returns first element.

LAST

Returns last element.

LIMIT

For VARRAYs, returns limit.

NEXT

Returns next element.

PRIOR

Returns previous element.

TRIM[( n )]

Removes n elements from end of collection. If n is not present, removes one element.

For more information about using collections with PL/SQL, see the collection sections in Chapter 9. For more information about creating collection types in the database, see the CREATE TYPE entry in Chapter 7.

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