On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Denis Mukhin <denis.x.muk...@oracle.com> wrote:
> In ROracle we standardized on the second approach, namely always return TRUE, 
> otherwise throw an error.
>
> Also since UPDATE is not the only operation that does not return any results 
> (although it might with a RETURNING clause) would a more generic name be more 
> appropriate here? Besides DMLs there are also DDLs. Something like 
> dbExecute(), dbSubmit(), dbSend() ...

How about dbExecuteQuery() ?

(dbSendQuery() is already taken.)

Hadley

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