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Anchored data types in PL/SQL are data types that are assigned to a variable based on a database object. The syntax uses the variable name and the %type attribute of a previously declared variable or database column. An example declares a variable v_fname with the same data type as the first_name column in a Students table. A SELECT statement fetches the first name where stu_id=1 and stores it in v_fname. Anchored data types allow variables to take on the data type of an underlying database object.

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Anchored data types in PL/SQL are data types that are assigned to a variable based on a database object. The syntax uses the variable name and the %type attribute of a previously declared variable or database column. An example declares a variable v_fname with the same data type as the first_name column in a Students table. A SELECT statement fetches the first name where stu_id=1 and stores it in v_fname. Anchored data types allow variables to take on the data type of an underlying database object.

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10/31/22, 9:16 PM Anchored Datatype In PL/SQL | RebellionRider

Anchored Datatype In PL/SQL


By Manish Sharma - January 10, 2019

Anchored data types are those data type which you assign to a variable based on a
database object. They are called anchored data type because unlike the variable data
type it is not dependent on that of any underlying object.

Syntax

variable_name typed-attribute%type

Where variable name is user defined name given to a variable and type attribute can be
anything such as previously declared PL/SQL variable or column of a table. And at the
end %type is the direct reference to the underlying database object.

Examples
For the demonstration I have created a table by the name of Students which has two
columns

Stu_id with data type Number and data width 2 and First_name with data type varchar2
and data width 8.

I have also inserted two rows into this table.

Example 1: How to Declare a variable with Anchored Datatype

Next I will write an anonymous block where I will declare a variable with anchored data
type and then initialize that variable by fetching value from this table.

So let’s do it.

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SET SERVEROUTPUT ON;

DECLARE
v_fname students.first_name%TYPE;

Here In the declaration section I have declared a variable by the name of v_fname with
identical data type as the column First Name of table Students. This means that the data
type of variable v_fname will be the varchar2 with data width 8. This is the data type
and data width of the column first name of our table students.

So let’s add execution section to this anonymous PL/SQL block and initialize this variable
v_fname by fetching data from the table students.

BEGIN

SELECT first_name INTO v_fname FROM students WHERE stu_id =1;


DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (v_fname); END;

Here in this execution block I have a Select… Into statement using which I am fetching
first name of the student whose stu_id is 1 and storing it into our variable v_fname.

That’s how we declare a variable with anchored data type.

Hope you this was helpful. Kindly please share this with your friends and help me reach
out to more people. Thanks and have a great day!

Manish Sharma
http://www.YouTube.com/RebellionRider

Manish Sharma, a recipient of the ORACLE ACE Award, is an Oracle database trainer & consultant. He
has an extremely successful YouTube channel named Rebellion Rider. It is one of the top ranking
channels when it comes to Oracle database tutorials with over 10 million views.




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