RE: What do you use autonomous transactions for?

From: <David.Schmoldt_at_gazettecommunications.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:29:27 -0600
Message-ID: <A7977E8FF208D51184AD0090277CBBD805E80122@gfc8.gfc.iowa.com>

I *think* I read you can use autonomous transactions in table triggers to avoid some mutating table situations. Haven't tried it myself.

I do use them a lot in logging the progress of long-running jobs, logging errors before rollback, etc.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Powell, Mark D [mailto:mark.powell_at_eds.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 1:29 PM
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> I would think that error message logging, debugging, and
> auditing are the
> primary uses of user created anonymous transactions.
>
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Ryan
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> Subject: What do you use autonomous transactions for?
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> The only thing I have used them for is logging dbms_jobs to
> tables. I do not
> want the transaction to commit, but I want to track my progress.
> What have you used them for? Anything interesting?
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