Re: DBA_SOURCE question

I believe that the reason was to avoid the use of LONGs...

...wise choice, too...

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> Dave,
>
> I was always curious about that too. The only guess I came up with was
> wither to help with debugging when compiling, or maybe when a procedure
> fails during execution to supply you with what line number is was at when
> the error occurred.
>
> Gives you a clue about how things work.
>
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
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>
> I recently discovered that DBA_SOURCE contains the code for procedures.
> What I find odd is that it stores the procedure by lines of code rather
than
> storing the whole procedure in a single record. Was there some reasoning
> behind this?? Just curious.
>
> thanks,
>
> Dave
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