RE: a pl/sql question

From: Guang Mei <gmei_at_incyte.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:50:14 -0400
Message-ID: <NJEDKDKJDGAKAEKKNEEJEEIDDCAA.gmei@incyte.com>

Hi:

Thanks for your suggestion. However my thinking is to avoid the calling of "begin ... end" block, rather than the exception in it to "reduce the overhead" of calling pl/sql block.

Guang

> I don't know if it will improve performance but since you know that in a =
> certain number of cases you will get a SQL%NOTFOUND why not use IF/THEN =
> to deal with it instead of throwing an exception?
>
> select title, volume, pages, year, journalid
> into ttl, vol, pg, yr, jid from ref where id=3Drn;
> begin
> select abbrev into jname from journal2abbrev
> where id=3Djid and medline=3D'Y';
> IF SQL%NOTFOUND THEN
> select name into jname from journal where id=3Djid;
> END IF;
> end;

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