Pipelined function update
When I presented the concept at the Utah Oracle User’s Group (UTOUG) Training Days 3/12-3/13/2009 it became clear the community could benefit from more detail about table and pipelined table functions. The question asked was: “What’s the primary purpose for pipelined table functions?”
My answer is: The primary purpose of a pipelined table function lets you retrieve PL/SQL record collection structures in a SQL context.
If there’s another reason that I missed, please let me know. It took a couple days to expand the older post to be more complete.