OMBCREATE VARYING_ARRAY

Purpose

To create an Varying Array (or Varray)

Prerequisites

Should be in the context of an Oracle Module

Syntax

createVaryingArrayCommand =  OMBCREATE ( VARYING_ARRAY "QUOTED_STRING" [ 
          SET ( "setPropertiesClause" [ SET ( REF | REFERENCE ) 
          "setReferenceIconSetClause" ] | ( REF | REFERENCE ) 
          "setReferenceIconSetClause" ) ] )
     setPropertiesClause =  PROPERTIES "(" "propertyNameList" ")" VALUES "(" 
          "propertyValueList" ")"
     setReferenceIconSetClause =  ICONSET "QUOTED_STRING"
     propertyNameList =  "UNQUOTED_STRING" { "," "UNQUOTED_STRING" }
     propertyValueList =  "propertyValue" { "," "propertyValue" }
     propertyValue =  ( "QUOTED_STRING" | "INTEGER_LITERAL" | 
          "FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL" )

Parameters

createVaryingArrayCommand

Creates a Varying Array with the given name.

setPropertiesClause

Sets properties (core, logical, physical, user-defined) for Varying Array . Valid properties are shown below:

getPropertiesClause

Basic properties for VARYING_ARRAY: 

Name: BUSINESS_NAME
Type: STRING(200)
Valid Values: Any valid character string in supported character set.
Default: Empty string
Business name of the Varying Array

Name: DESCRIPTION
Type: STRING(4000)
Valid Values: Any valid character string in supported character set.
Default: Empty string
Description of the Varying Array 

Name: DATATYPE
Type: STRING(20)
Valid Values: BINARY_DOUBLE, BINARY_FLOAT, BLOB, CHAR, CLOB, DATE, FLOAT, INTEGER, INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND, INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH, NCHAR, NCLOB, NUMBER, NVARCHAR2, RAW, SYS.ANYDATA, SYS.LCR$_ROW_RECORD, XMLFORMAT, TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, VARHCAR, VARCHAR2, XMLTYPE
Default: Empty string
Datatype of the Base Element of the Varying Array

setReferenceIconSetClause

Sets reference icon set.

propertyNameList

The list of properties.

propertyValueList

The list of property values.

propertyValue

This clause adds the property values.

VARYING_ARRAY Object

Table 10-2 VARYING_ARRAY Object

Property	Type	Choices	Min	Max	Default	Description
DEPLOYABLE	BOOLEAN	true, false	none	none	true	Warehouse Builder generates a set of scripts to create an object only for those object marked as Deployable = true
GENERATION_COMMENTS	STRING	none	none	none	empty string	Enter additional comments for the generated code.