For example you can avoid mutating tabletrigger errors with them,
With a high probability that most people don't realised whatthe side-effects of read-consistency are going to do, and end up with incorrect data.
Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com Author: Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/cbo_book/ind_book.html The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Naim" <kennaim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ricks12345@xxxxxxxxx>; <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:44 PM Subject: RE: uses of autonomous transactions
There are many of good and bad uses for them, several Collaborate08 presentations had sections on them. For example you can avoid mutating table trigger errors with them, commit within triggers etc. It is a very powerfulfeature that can kill you if used improperly.
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