Re: When to use packages?

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:21:18 GMT, andreyNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net (NetComrade) wrote:

>a) not recompile the package, and let the database validate/recompile
>the procedures that are being executed

If there really is a need for it. See c)
>b) avoid using packages unless they're necessary for given code (I
>understand, packages do have some advantages, however, only remotedly
>aware about some of them)

Is this a serious remark? It isn't a serious remark, is it?

>c) .. any other suggestion

Stop hacking, and set up proper development methods. And, yes, this would include releases, version control, and implementing changes in a controlled fashion. Anything else will result in a messy application, stress for everyone, and people ending up with a heart attack.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA