No experiences on it, but reduced performance and additional bugs are possible drawbacks of this approach. The Optimizer probably doesn't have free hands for putting together the execution plans either. Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan" <ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:57 AM Subject: encapsulating tables in pl/sql packages? > Steve Fuerstein has written on this extensively and I heard a guy speak on this recently. I was wondering if anyone tried this. Instead of giving developers direct sql access to tables, each table is wrapped in a package and the developers call those packages to perform select and DML statements on the tables. > if you have done this, please post your experiences. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------