Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:11:12 -0800, Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
>> I find it very useful.
>
> Actually, I don't. When I'm loading something that is not supposed to be
> in the database (vast majority of my data loads), I'm always doing that
> with errors=0 option, so that the load is terminated when the 1st error
> is encountered and I'm informed of any problems. Of course, I always load
> into a staging schema first, check the untrusted data and process them. I
> have to confess, I didn't need MERGE statement more then twice in my whole
> career. That doesn't diminish what you said to the OP, which I completely
> agree with, I only don't see MERGE as being tremendously useful.
>
A merge is more effective that a pl/sql construct with
an exception handler, is all I claimed.
And yes - only when you *know* your data being merged
is correct.
Maybe you ought to look into it for the final stage of
your data loads ;)
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
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Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 04:58:35 CST
