Dropping an object type v16
Deleting an object type
The syntax for deleting an object type is as follows:
DROP TYPE <objtype>;
Where objtype is the identifier of the object type to drop. If the definition of objtype contains attributes that are themselves object types or collection types, you must drop these nested object types or collection types last.
If an object type body is defined for the object type, the DROP TYPE command deletes the object-type body as well as the object-type specification. To re-create the complete object type, you must reissue both the CREATE TYPE and CREATE TYPE BODY commands.
This example drops the emp_obj_typ and the addr_obj_typ object types. You must drop emp_obj_typ first since it contains addr_obj_typ in its definition as an attribute.
DROP TYPE emp_obj_typ; DROP TYPE addr_obj_typ;
Dropping only the object type body
The syntax for deleting an object type body but not the object type specification is:
DROP TYPE BODY <objtype>;
You can re-create the object type body by issuing the CREATE TYPE BODY command.
This example drops only the object type body of the dept_obj_typ:
DROP TYPE BODY dept_obj_typ;