Syntax

Purpose

POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY takes as input a nested table and a cardinality and returns a nested table of nested tables containing all nonempty subsets (called submultisets) of the nested table of the specified cardinality.

• expr can be any expression that evaluates to a nested table.

• cardinality can be any positive integer.

• If expr resolves to null, then Oracle Database returns NULL.

• If expr resolves to a nested table that is empty, then Oracle returns an error.

• The element types of the nested table must be comparable. Refer to "Comparison Conditions" for information on the comparability of nonscalar types.

  Note:

  This function is not supported in PL/SQL.

Examples

First, create a data type that is a nested table of the cust_address_tab_type data type:

CREATE TYPE cust_address_tab_tab_typ
  AS TABLE OF cust_address_tab_typ;
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Next, duplicate the elements in all the nested table rows to increase the cardinality of the nested table rows to 2:

UPDATE customers_demo
  SET cust_address_ntab = cust_address_ntab MULTISET UNION cust_address_ntab;

Now, select the nested table column cust_address_ntab from the customers_demo table using the POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY function:

SELECT CAST(POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY(cust_address_ntab, 2)
         AS cust_address_tab_tab_typ)
  FROM customers_demo;

CAST(POWERMULTISET_BY_CARDINALITY(CUST_ADDRESS_NTAB,2) AS CUST_ADDRESS_TAB_TAB_TYP)
  (STREET_ADDRESS, POSTAL_CODE, CITY, STATE_PROVINCE, COUNTRY_ID)
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CUST_ADDRESS_TAB_TAB_TYP(CUST_ADDRESS_TAB_TYP
  (CUST_ADDRESS_TYP('514 W Superior St', '46901', 'Kokomo', 'IN', 'US'), 
   CUST_ADDRESS_TYP('514 W Superior St', '46901', 'Kokomo', 'IN', 'US')))
CUST_ADDRESS_TAB_TAB_TYP(CUST_ADDRESS_TAB_TYP
  (CUST_ADDRESS_TYP('2515 Bloyd Ave', '46218', 'Indianapolis', 'IN', 'US'), 
   CUST_ADDRESS_TYP('2515 Bloyd Ave', '46218', 'Indianapolis', 'IN', 'US')))
CUST_ADDRESS_TAB_TAB_TYP(CUST_ADDRESS_TAB_TYP
  (CUST_ADDRESS_TYP('8768 N State Rd 37', '47404', 'Bloomington', 'IN', 'US'), 
   CUST_ADDRESS_TYP('8768 N State Rd 37', '47404', 'Bloomington', 'IN', 'US')))
. . .

The preceding example requires the customers_demo table and a nested table column containing data. Refer to "Multiset Operators" to create this table and nested table columns.