Dominic Thanks for your answer. I am aware of this call which doesn't through an exception. In the case I have mentioned in my blog article, we finally canceled the proposed solution because of that possible exception not raised when using a call. Best regards Mohamed 2014-04-07 12:20 GMT+02:00 Dominic Brooks <dombrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Sent prematurely AND with an error in my test. > > A scheduler prog using CALL can potentially suffer from the same problem I > described if the prog raises a no_data_found or other exception which is > normal / expected by SQL. > > CALL job will succeed. > BEGIN END will fail with exception. > > > Cheers, > Dominic > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 7 Apr 2014, at 11:14, "Dominic Brooks" <dombrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> What do you think? > >> Do you see any issues with using a call my_proc(); > >> instead of begin my_proc(); end; > > > > For scheduled jobs, I don't see an issue. > > > > But I have seen an issue in JDBC once where the call to a stored proc > > was missing a wrapping set of {} > > This meant that the call to sp was translated to CALL rather than being > wrapped with BEGIN ... END; > > As a result, a no_data_found exception was swallowed. > > > -- Bien Respectueusement Mohamed Houri