Re: What is the result of this

Yeah, that would be another good question.

Maybe I'll ask them to write the sieve of Erosthenes as part of the test as well. They must do it in PL/SQL.

Re this recursize example: I ran the 'go' procedure for several minutes before killing the session.

Never did see the errors. Maybe I should run it on Windoze so it will break sooner.

Jared

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 17:03, Stephane Paquette wrote:
> It will stack the call and use more and more resources, check the size of
> the session PGA.
> You can do recursivity with SQL.
>
> Jared, you should ask about recursivity with SQL in your interviews.
>
>
>
> Stephane
>
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>
>
> Here's a question that came up around here that nobody was sure about.
> Suppose you need to drop and index on a busy table, and you keep getting
> the "Resource busy .... " error. So you create a procedure as follows:
>
> create or replace procedure go as
> begin
> execute immediate 'drop index BUBBA.INDEX_NAME';
> exception
> when others then
> go;
> end;
> /
>
> Is this the a equivalent of a single loop that just loops around until
> successful; or does this result in recursion that just gets deeper and
> deeper, using up a constantly increasing amount of resources?
>
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