Re: standards

  • From: david wendelken <davewendelken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 05:25:04 -0700 (PDT)

re: not using "when others then null;"

>> I use it on a regular basis in certain code of mine (on production database 
>> that runs 24x7) when I
>> DON'T want the exception to kill the processing. 
 
>not to mention Forms programs.  Mighty handy when in-line select statements 
>(not
>in an explicit begin/end block) start to give off more than one row...

Well, if you are getting more than one row back for that select statement, then 
your expectation of what data would exist does not match what data actually 
exists.  I think hiding that is a serious mistake!  
Much better to discover the problem and fix the code to correctly handle the 
situation rather than ignore it.


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