Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial/Collections/POWERMULTISET BY CARDINALITY
POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY Operator
You use the POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY operator to get a sub-nested table from an input nested table with a specified length (cardinality).
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SQL> SQL> CREATE Or Replace TYPE nestedTableType IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(10)
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SQL> SQL> SELECT *
2 FROM TABLE(POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY(nestedTableType("This", "is", "a", "test"), 3));
COLUMN_VALUE
nestedTableType("This", "is", "a") nestedTableType("This", "is", "test") nestedTableType("This", "a", "test") nestedTableType("is", "a", "test") SQL> SQL> drop type nestedTableType
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drop type nestedTableType SQL> SQL>You cannot use POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY in PL/SQL.</source>