Re: Database Link Timer
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:27:38 -0700
PL/SQL does not have signals.
If you wrote this in a language that was
more suited to systems programming, such
as oh, say, Perl, this would be easy.
And no, I am not being facetious.
PL/SQL is not an appropriate tool for this
kind of work.
You may be able to do this in Java, but I
don't know.
Jared
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 05:08, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:
> All,
>
> I have the following query in a stored package:
>
> select 1 into loc_variables from dual@databaselink
> <mailto:dual@databaselink> ;
>
> What I am doing is checking the availabilty of the remote database
> periodically. The bad news is that we sometimes have network problems. If
> the above would fail, then I trap the error and move on. But sometimes, it
> is just painfully slow (like it doesn't fail but hangs for a long time).
>
> Is there some way I can put a timer on the above that says if it can't
> complete the query in 10 seconds, then fail?
>
> thanks
>
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
>
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