Intermediate

6-14.

Consider the following table declarations:

-- table of numbers
TYPE number_table_type IS TABLE OF number
  INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
number_table number_table_type;

-- table of empnos
TYPE empno_table_type IS TABLE OF employee.employee_id%TYPE
  INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
empno_table empno_table_type;

-- table of employee table rows
TYPE employee_table_type IS TABLE of employee%ROWTYPE
  INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
employee_table employee_table_type;

-- table of records of employee numbers
TYPE employee_record IS RECORD
  (empno employee.employee_id%TYPE );
TYPE employee_record_table_type IS TABLE OF employee_record
  INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
employee_record_table employee_record_table_type;

Complete the following chart by supplying the command that assigns the value “100” to element number 100. For the tables of records, assign the value to the empno field.

Table Name

Syntax

Number_table

 

Empno_table

 

Employee_table

 

Employee_record_table

 

6-15.

Oracle offers a set of “methods” (different in syntax usage from functions) to help you work with collections. Identify the method associated with each description:

  1. Returns TRUE if an element has been defined or FALSE if it has not.

  2. Returns the number of elements in an index-by table. It is 0 when the table is initially defined.

  3. Returns the number of the first element in the index-by table. It returns NULL if no elements are defined.

  4. Returns the number of the last element in the index-by table. It returns NULL if no elements are defined.

  5. Returns the ...

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