Introduced in Oracle Database 11.1 The PL/SQL CONTINUE statement allows you to skip the current loop iteration. It can be used conditionally and unconditionally. Unconditional Example BEGIN FOR i IN 1 .. 10 LOOP IF i = 2 THEN CONTINUE; END IF; DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT(i || ‘, ‘); END LOOP; DBMS_OUTPUT.NEW_LINE; END; In the example above, there is […]
Oracle 12c introduced the Identity Column. You can find out more about this feature in the new features guide and within the CREATE TABLE documentation. In this article I will use Tom Kyte’s run stats utility to compare the performance of the IDENTITY column with the explicit use of a sequence object. The script below will be used to […]
….is that when you really need to, it allows you to turn up your applications instrumentation to 11. A 30 second PL/SQL Conditional Compilation overview PL/SQL Conditional compilation was introduced with Oracle Database 10gR2. The official documentation explains how to use the Conditional Compilation constructs but doesn’t give too many use cases. Fortunately the Oracle White Paper […]
The inspiration for this article came from reading Mark Hoxey excellent post on avoiding ORA-04068: existing state of packages has been discarded One of the potential solutions to this problem suggested by Mark is to use Application Context. I didn’t know too much about Application Context so this post is my way of documenting and sharing what […]
The PL/SQL Compiler warning “PLW-06009: procedure “string” OTHERS handler does not end in RAISE or RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR” was introduced with 11g release 1. It’s purpose is to alert you to the fact that you have a WHEN OTHERS exception handler and the last statement within it doesn’t contain a RAISE or a RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR statement. The first example […]
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