Database Reference
In-Depth Information
We have already seen plenty of collection examples in this chapter, so no
additional examples are shown here. Now let's look briefly at some other,
perhaps extremely complex or unusual, datatypes.
16.3
Special Datatypes
Special datatypes used in Oracle are shown in Table 16.5. These special
datatypes are often specific to a particular environment or application type.
Table 16.5
Special Oracle Datatypes.
Datatype
Description
XML
XML documents can be stored, retrieved, and manipulated as XML
documents (see Chapter 17).
Spatial
Special spatially oriented datatypes allowing for multiple dimensions
such as for graphic (geographic) information systems (maps), archi-
tectural and construction design, and various other types of geomet-
ric modeling data.
Media
Special multimedia datatypes of which there are numerous different
datatypes.
Any
Unknown or generic datatypes.
This chapter has covered various different datatypes plus some object col-
lection datatype functionality not appropriate to be covered elsewhere in this
topic. The next chapter delves into the details of using XML with Oracle.
 
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