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Oracle® Database SQL Language Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

Part Number E10592-02
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CARDINALITY

Syntax

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Description of the illustration cardinality.gif

Purpose

CARDINALITY returns the number of elements in a nested table. The return type is NUMBER. If the nested table is empty, or is a null collection, then CARDINALITY returns NULL.

Examples

The following example shows the number of elements in the nested table column ad_textdocs_ntab of the sample table pm.print_media:

SELECT product_id, CARDINALITY(ad_textdocs_ntab) Cardinality
   FROM print_media
   ORDER BY product_id, cardinality;

PRODUCT_ID CARDINALITY
---------- -----------
      2056           3
      2268           3
      3060           3
      3106           3