RE: a pl/sql question
- From: "Guang Mei" <gmei@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:50:14 -0400
Hi:
Thanks for your suggestion. However my thinking is to avoid the calling of
"begin ... end" block, rather than the exception in it to "reduce the
overhead" of calling pl/sql block.
Guang
> I don't know if it will improve performance but since you know that in a =
> certain number of cases you will get a SQL%NOTFOUND why not use IF/THEN =
> to deal with it instead of throwing an exception?
>
> select title, volume, pages, year, journalid
> into ttl, vol, pg, yr, jid from ref where id=3Drn;
> begin
> select abbrev into jname from journal2abbrev
> where id=3Djid and medline=3D'Y';
> IF SQL%NOTFOUND THEN
> select name into jname from journal where id=3Djid;
> END IF;
> end;
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