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Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:07:05 -0000

Yep, and that's good for existing code. There is still however the overhead of converting it to BULK COLLECT. So, the best way is to directly use BULK COLLECT whenever you can.

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:39:03 -0000

Thanks Mathew. Bryn's white paper is excellent. I linked to it last month from http://awads.net/wp/2008/10...

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Boneist — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:19:35 -0000

It's worth noting that in 10g, if you're doing step 5, Oracle automatically converts it into step 4 for you (with a default limit of 100).

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

mathewbutler — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:41:47 -0000

Hi Eddie,

The full set of recommendations from Bryn Llewellyn can be found here:

http://www.oracle.com/techn...

Best Regards,