QUESTION POSED ON: 22 September 2003 Is it possible to build nested tables in SQL Server (I
have good knowledge of Oracle and have used nested tables in Oracle for
quite some time now)? I studied a few articles on Microsoft.com that
state that this is possible using data mining, but I'm not sure of this
concept of data mining. My prime concern is that I should be able to
access the nested tables (maybe I can also do away with multidimensional
arrays in a column in an SQL Server Table, if possible) should be
accessible from a RAD such as Visual Basic/.NET/PowerBuilder using
ODBC/OLEDB techniques.
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I have no idea what a nested table is. I'm assuming that you are
embedding a table of information inside another table of information.
If so, you can not do this in SQL Server. SQL Server also does not
support arrays.
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