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What are % TYPE and % ROWTYPE ? What are the advantages of
using these over datatypes?

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What are % TYPE and % ROWTYPE ? What are the advantages of using these over datatypes?..

Answer / swapna

"% Type "is used to extract definition of the column of a
table.

"%Rowtype" is used to extract definition of the columns of
all columns.

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What are % TYPE and % ROWTYPE ? What are the advantages of using these over datatypes?..

Answer / nakul.v

%TYPE provides the data type of a variable or a database
column to that variable.

%ROWTYPE provides the record type that represents a entire
row of a table or view or columns selected in the cursor.

The advantages are :
I. Need not know about variable's data type.
II.If the database definition of a column in a table
changes, the data type of a variable changes accordingly.

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What are % TYPE and % ROWTYPE ? What are the advantages of using these over datatypes?..

Answer / nishi

%TYPE provides the data type of a variable or a database column to that variable.

%ROWTYPE provides the record type that represents a entire row of a table or view or columns selected in the cursor.

The advantages are :

I. Need not know about variable's data type.

II.If the database definition of a column in a table changes, the data type of a variable changes accordingly.

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What are % TYPE and % ROWTYPE ? What are the advantages of using these over datatypes?..

Answer / manoj

"%Type" :-It reffer one datatype which take
data type of a column in table,
Previously defined variable(Anchor type)

"%Rowtype" :-Have all type Refered May be for
Table,
Cursor,
Ref Cursor,
curor variable etc.

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