Category: Pl/Sql
-
Table Data Comparison: Row Differences
A common task that database developers encounter is comparing data between two different sources to see rows with differences. This can be a table that is loaded with new data that needs to…
-
Cursor Basics: Cursor Iteration Controls
In the previous post we discussed the use of bulk collect and limit to optimize cursor iteration. This gave us a way to see the undocumented bulk prefetch optimization that has been applied…
-
Cursor Basics: Bulk Binds
In the previous post we discussed the most basic approaches to iterating through a resultset using cursors. Since those approaches traverse the cursor one row at a time they are often referred to…
-
Cursor Basics: A Fetching Difference
There are some techniques that are really basic to what we do everyday as PL/SQL developers. There is a tendency to automatically do these basic things in the same way without considering the…