Oracle-L: RE: DBA_SOURCE question

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:38:21 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00440790.20020410063821@fatcity.com>

Dave,

I was always curious about that too. The only guess I came up with was wither to help with debugging when compiling, or maybe when a procedure fails during execution to supply you with what line number is was at when the error occurred.

Gives you a clue about how things work.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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I recently discovered that DBA_SOURCE contains the code for procedures. What I find odd is that it stores the procedure by lines of code rather than storing the whole procedure in a single record. Was there some reasoning behind this?? Just curious.

thanks,

Dave
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