nested-table

What are nested table objects in Oracle ?

Can someone explain what nested table objects are in Oracle ? While building an interface between to systems I discovered what was to me an odd column SYS_NC00054$. After some research I discovered that it was a nested table object from the function based index I created. ...

update multiple records in multiple nested tables in oracle

I have an oracle table with nested tables in some of the columns. Now, I need to be able to update all the records in each nested table, in each of the records of the main table. How is this accomplished? Any of the ways that I've tried, I get errors about either not be able to perform updates on that view, or single row subquery returns...