Re: Undocumented Oracle Functions

Depends on your site, some places will even put DBA scripts under change control, at which point dealing with something like that can be a real headache.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I hate them from a manager point of view. Nothing makes me cringe more
>> than thinking some developer would use such functions in production code
>> only to find that they no longer work after the next upgrade since they are
>> not "supported" or "documented".
>>
>>
> I did mention that these shouldn't be used in an application.
>
> Perfectly acceptable in DBA scripts though IMO, as long as it's something
> that you can afford to have break until you can fix the problem caused by
> an undocumented function changing between releases.
>
> I particularly liked sys_op_vecbit.
>
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> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
>

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