"Nuno Souto" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
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> "Karsten Farrell" <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message
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>
> > True, the PL/SQL that you use to create a package is "some 3GL crap,"
but
> > it's not evil crap. Java is evil crap. <g>
>
> :D
>
> But don't store much more than about 100 or so values
> in those lookup table key=value pairs in PL/SQL.
> It's not *that* efficient as far as linear scans go!
> DAMHIKT...
Whaddayamean? Associative arrays in 9i can be indexed by integer or
string... no scanning required!!!
Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 22:14:28 CDT
