Using Operator VALUE:

As you may expect, the operator VALUE returns the value of an object. The VALUE takes its argument a correlation variable.  For illustration, to return a result set of the Person objects, you can use the VALUE as shown below:

BEGIN

INSERT INTO employees

SELECT VALUE(p) FROM persons p

WHERE p.last_name LIKE '%Smith';

In the next example, you use VALUE to return a specific Person object:

DECLARE

p1 Person;

p2 Person;

...

BEGIN

SELECT VALUE(p) INTO p1 FROM persons p

WHERE p.last_name = 'Kroll';

p2 := p1;

...

END;

At this position, p1 holds a local Person object, that is a copy of the stored object whose last name is 'Kroll', and p2 holds the other local Person object, that is a copy of p1. As the illustration below shows, you can use these variables to access and update the objects they have:

BEGIN

p1.last_name := p1.last_name || 'Jr';

Currently, the local Person object held by p1 has the last name 'Kroll Jr'.