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It saddened me to see whilst upvoting talexb's reply; it had been down-voted.
The contents of a scratchpad are temporary and in adding the notes here,
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Oracle Stuff
It's not clear what the field types contain.
Perhaps the easiest solution would be to write a PL/SQL function to decode the troublesome fields.

AFAIK there isn't such a thing as a nested table structure in Oracle or any other relational databases?

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In reply to Re: Re: Nested table structures in Oracle & DBI by frankus
in thread Nested table structures in Oracle & DBI by perlboy26sf

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