October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
14h 14m
English
Lab ObjectivesAfter this Lab, you will be able to: |
There are numerous benefits of using packages as a method to bundle your functions and procedures, the first being that a well-designed package is a logical grouping of objects—such as functions, procedures, global variables, and cursors. All of the code (parse tree and pseudocode [p-code]) is loaded on the first call of the package. This means that the first call to the package is very expensive (involves a lot of processing on the server), but all subsequent calls will result in an improved performance. Packages ...
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