How to create a Oracle global type and use it in PL/SQL?

Question

Oracle RECORD TYPE declared in procedure or function is local, therefore it might be used locally only. How to declare a RECORD TYPE that is global and might be used in all procedures and functions globally in DB?

Answer 1

Record types cannot be created as a separate schema object, so to make a Record type publicly available the type is usually declared in a package specification, or a package body to be available only in the scope of that package.