Splendid. And it brings me back to the very valid point Cary made to me some years ago when we were in Honolulu together for the OAUG - remember the one where Oracle pulled all financial support two weeks before the start of the conference? That was the beginning of the Mark Jarvis Master Plan (MJMP) to kill off user groups and get some real messages out to customers instead :). Anyway, Cary's point was (I think) to focus on worst practices instead of best practices. When you constantly look for best practices you will always be falling behind reality, and there will be no impetus for moving the bar up. If you look for worst practices (things not to do), then you'll learn and grow and become smarter and you can steadily add to the list... or just move the bar up, up and away. Mogens david wendelken wrote: > How about: > > PL/SQL Programmers who use exception blocks like this will be flogged, then > fired from their job. > > EXCEPTION > WHEN OTHERS THEN > NULL; > END; > > :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: David <thump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Aug 4, 2004 3:45 PM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: standards > > I ahve been asked to write the standards for the company in terms of > Oracle databases. > I have never done anythign like that before... > Anyone have any pointers or skeletons or examples I could review? > Cheers ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------