Declaring variable type based on a column type

Question

In Oracle\'s PL-SQL, you can declare a variable and define its type based on a table column:

declare var1 table.column%TYPE;

Is it possible

Answer 1

No you can't do this. The closest equivalent is User-Defined Data Types. This will give you a layer of abstraction that may help, but it is not the same as deriving a type from a column.