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Best Practices: PL SQL

Mahendra Sonawane
10 Aug 2011
2005 KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited

We value our
relationship

Loops, Cursors

for i in reverse 1..50 loop

Creating a new Cursor

based on a Cursor.
Cursor c1 is select ...
C2 c1%rowtype;

s := i;
end loop;

SELECT INTO statement

performs two queries
Fetch data from database
Determines
TOO_MANY_ROWS
exception to be raised or
not.

For a single row sub query

Implicit cursor performs two
fetches
Explicit cursor performs single
fetch.

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For update where current of cursor

For Update : is used to lock cursor fetched rows until commit

Normally when other user update rows fetched by cursor, then cursor equerries.
declare
cursor c1 is select * from emp for update of sal,comm;
begin
for c in c1 loop
update emp set sal = sal + 2000 where current of c1;
end loop;
commit;
end;

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Cursor Loop & commit

If commit is inside the LOOP
It will raise error
ORA-01002: fetch out of sequence
ORA-06512: at line # This is called Fetching Across
Commits.
To mimic WHERE CURRENT OF
Use rowid column in select clause of cursor.
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Exception , Mutating , sub query

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Sub Query

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Sub query and Join

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Operators (Some , Any)

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Set Operators

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Operator precedence

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Rules of precedence

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Uses And , OR

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Rownum

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Global Temporary Table

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Union , Union All, Count, Bulk Collect

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Nocopy

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Nocopy

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Points to remember

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Any Question
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Thank You
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