Re: How to delay the execution of an SQL statement?

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 15:32:07 GMT
Message-ID: <3CD00A75.99B75BA1@exesolutions.com>

Ed Prochak wrote:

> I'm always curious about this is a database context: Why do you want a
> delay?
> (I've done lots of real-time/embedded programming where this kind of
> thing is sometimes appropriate, but I don't know of any database reasons
> for this.)
>
> ed
>
> Anirban wrote:
> >
> > I want to delay the execution of an SQL statement in a PL/SQL block.
> > Is there any function like 'wait' or 'delay' which will delay the
> > query?
>
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So that later on you can go back to the customer and charge thousands of dollars to "tune" things and make them faster. (just kidding ... I think)

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed May 01 2002 - 10:32:07 CDT