11g Feature: PLS-00436 Restriction in FORALL Statements Removed

Hi All!
I was reviewing some features in Oracle and, basically, every single time I review them I find something new. Seems Oracle Databases’ features are near to infinite and we frequently find some that can really add value to our solutions.

So I decided to make a serie of posts with really quick notes about each one of them.
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11g Feature: PLS-00436 Restriction in FORALL Statements Removed

In 11g, the PLS-00436 restriction has been removed, meaning individual elements of a collection can be referenced with SET and WHERE clauses in a FORALL construction.

Please check the following example, setting text of my_table to ‘Line x’ where x is the line number (also ID column):

DECLARE
  TYPE t_test IS TABLE OF my_table%ROWTYPE;
  l_test t_test;
BEGIN
  SELECT * BULK COLLECT INTO l_test FROM my_table;
  
  FOR i IN l_test.first .. l_test.last LOOP
    l_test(i).text := 'Line ' || i;
  END LOOP;

  FORALL i IN l_test.first .. l_test.last
    UPDATE my_table SET text = l_test(i).text WHERE id = l_test(i).id;
  COMMIT;
END;
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