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 -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 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 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Farnsworth, Dave INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mercadante, Thomas F INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
