Modern Oracle Database Programming: Level Up Your Skill Set to Oracle's Latest and Most Powerful Features in SQL, PL/SQL, and JSON

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A. Nuijten, P. BarelModern Oracle Database Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9166-5_16

16. Processing Data in the Background

Alex Nuijten¹   and Patrick Barel²

(1)

Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

(2)

Almere, Flevoland, The Netherlands

 

Processing data can be quite time-consuming; for instance, when a file is uploaded to the database, and it needs to be parsed and loaded into several tables. As an end user, working with the application grinds to a halt until the process has been completed.

Often the processing of a file (or any other type of data influx—like a web service) can be delayed until later. Moving the process to the background gives ...