Re: Dependency tree of packages/procedures and functions

To borrow a phrase from Tom Kyte, "Repeat after me: Packages break the dependency chain!" In other words, if you package all your functions and procedures, the dependency chain is easy. The steps are: 1.) Compile all package specs.
2.) Compile all package bodies.
That's it, you're done. No recursive relationships, no cases of a single function or package invalidating dozens of other objects.....

Hope that helps,

-Mark

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 03:34, Leonard, George wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Hope you can help.
>
> As with all big projects our developers forgot to listen to us when we
> asked them to keep a dependency tree what calls what.
>
> Now we are busy going into pre-prod etc and get asked to move Package A,
> doing this nicely goes and breaks half the world down the line,
>
> I would like to run something against the database (packages, procedures
> and functions) to generate a dependency list.
>
> Any ideas what is out there that can do this (freeware prepared), any
> output acceptable.
>
> George
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