The incremental commit Anti-pattern

This is a far more opinionated post than usual. It is not meant to inflammatory, my goal for this post is to have something tangible that I can point to the next time an Oracle Developer thinks they want or need to “do” incremental commits. In this post an incremental commit is defined as code […]

DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE and the perils of the RAISE statement

Since dbms_utility.format_error_backtrace has been available from Oracle 10g this isn’t another what it ishow to use it post. Instead I will be taking this opportunity to discuss a nuance of dbms_utility.format_error_backtrace that you may not be aware of. dbms_utility.format_error_backtrace reports the call stack back to the exception or the last raise statement which if you […]