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

It may skirt the real issue, but you can "cheat" a little bit by

Select *
INTO #tmp
From MyTable
Where 1 = 0

Will automatically create a temp table with all columns with correct data types.