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    Index by tables in PL/SQL are like associative arrays that use a primary key to access elements. The primary key is not automatically generated and values can be missing. While a VARCHAR2 can be used, a BINARY_INTEGER is frequently used as the primary key for its faster speed and more efficient storage. Methods like EXISTS, PRIOR, and NEXT take an index number as a parameter to access specific rows, while COUNT returns the number of elements in the table. Index by tables allow collections to be accessed via a single field or composite record type primary key.

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    Index by tables in PL/SQL are like associative arrays that use a primary key to access elements. The primary key is not automatically generated and values can be missing. While a VARCHAR2 can be used, a BINARY_INTEGER is frequently used as the primary key for its faster speed and more efficient storage. Methods like EXISTS, PRIOR, and NEXT take an index number as a parameter to access specific rows, while COUNT returns the number of elements in the table. Index by tables allow collections to be accessed via a single field or composite record type primary key.

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    PLSQL 6 2 SG

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    Index by tables in PL/SQL are like associative arrays that use a primary key to access elements. The primary key is not automatically generated and values can be missing. While a VARCHAR2 can be used, a BINARY_INTEGER is frequently used as the primary key for its faster speed and more efficient storage. Methods like EXISTS, PRIOR, and NEXT take an index number as a parameter to access specific rows, while COUNT returns the number of elements in the table. Index by tables allow collections to be accessed via a single field or composite record type primary key.

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    INDEX BY tables are sometimes referred to as "Associative Arrays."

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    The primary key is not like a sequence. Values are not generated automatically, but must be specifically
    inserted. Therefore some values can be missing, as the slide shows.

    Although an INDEX BY table can have a VARCHAR2 primary key, a BINARY_INTERGER is frequently used to
    its faster speed and more efficient storage.

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    EXISTS(n), PRIOR(n), and NEXT(n) take an index number (n) corresponding to a row in the INDEX BY table as
    a parameter.

    TRIM and DELETE also may take parameters.

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    The COUNT method returns the number of elements in the INDEX BY table.

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    • Collection – A named set of multiple occurrences of the same kind of data
    • INDEX BY table – A collection which is based on a single field or column
    • INDEX BY table of records – A collection which is based on a composite record type

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