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Oracle® Database SQL Language Reference
11g Release 1 (11.1)

Part Number B28286-01
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IS OF type Condition

Use the IS OF type condition to test object instances based on their specific type information.

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You must have EXECUTE privilege on all types referenced by type, and all types must belong to the same type family.

This condition evaluates to null if expr is null. If expr is not null, then the condition evaluates to true (or false if you specify the NOT keyword) under either of these circumstances:

The expr frequently takes the form of the VALUE function with a correlation variable.

The following example uses the sample table oe.persons, which is built on a type hierarchy in "Substitutable Table and Column Examples". The example uses the IS OF type condition to restrict the query to specific subtypes:

SELECT * FROM persons p 
   WHERE VALUE(p) IS OF TYPE (employee_t);

NAME                     SSN
----------------------------
Joe                    32456
Tim                     5678

SELECT * FROM persons p 
   WHERE VALUE(p) IS OF (ONLY part_time_emp_t);

NAME                     SSN
----------------------------
Tim                     5678