Collections, Cursors, Bulk Binds and FORALL

(Mark Rittman) Once in a while, I read something about Oracle that stops me in my tracks and makes me really think about how I approach my job. Recent examples include starting to work with 9iAS, and slowly becoming aware of how much I'm going to have to get my head around the role Java and middleware is going to have in future Oracle applications. Another was when I began studying for my OCP, and began to understand how, for any system to be effective, you need to really have a good understanding of how Oracle works internally.

The latest example came about from reading a recent thread started by Daniel Morgan on comp.databases.oracle.server.