Re: (Fwd) Re: Any Oracle 9 users? A test please...

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Mike Mascari wrote:
>>
>>Oracle isn't processing those statements interactively. SQL*Plus
>>is waiting on the "/" to send the PL/SQL block to the database.
>>I suspect its not going to take Oracle more than a second to
>>insert a row...
>
>
> Oh, I understand now. He delayed when entering the function body, but
> that has no effect when he sends it. Can someone add an explicit sleep
> in the function body and try that?
>

SQL> create table foo (a date);

Table created.

SQL> begin
2 insert into foo select sysdate from dual;
3 dbms_lock.sleep(5);
4 insert into foo select sysdate from dual;
5 end;
6 /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> select to_char(a, 'HH24:MI:SS') from foo;

TO_CHAR(
--------
11:31:02
11:31:07

Mike Mascari
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