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PL/Scope 12.2: Find all commits and rollbacks in your code

Yes, another post on PL/Scope, that awesome code analysis feature of PL/SQL (first added in 11., and then given a major upgrade in 12.2 with the analysis of SQL statements in PL/SQL code)!

A question on StackOverflow included this comment:
But there can be scenarios where it is difficult to identify where the ROLLBACK statement are executed in a complex PL SQL program (if you have to do only a modification to the existing code).
As of 12.2, it is super-duper easy to find all commits and rollbacks in your code.

Find all commits:

SELECT st.object_name,
       st.object_type,
       st.line,
       src.text
  FROM all_statements st, all_source src
 WHERE     st.TYPE = 'COMMIT'
       AND st.object_name = src.name
       AND st.owner = src.owner
       AND st.line = src.line
ORDER BY st.object_name,
         st.object_type   
/

Find all rollbacks:

SELECT st.object_name,
       st.object_type,
       st.line,
       src.text
  FROM all_statements st, all_source src
 WHERE     st.TYPE = 'ROLLBACK'
       AND st.object_name = src.name
       AND st.owner = src.owner
       AND st.line = src.line
ORDER BY st.object_name,
         st.object_type   
/

Reminder: these data dictionary views are populated only when your session or program unit has these settings enabled:

ALTER SESSION SET plscope_settings='identifiers:all, statements:all'

Comments

  1. ParasJune 15, 2017 at 2:45 AM

    Nice article Steven

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  2. AnonymousJuly 4, 2017 at 8:34 AM

    Hi Steve,
    is there a difference when I execute the query as simple SQL or inside a PL/SQL procedure?
    In the latter case it returns no rows for an object belonging to another schema for which I have been granted DEBUG and EXECUTE priveleges.
    Do I need some extra privileges in that case?
    It puzzles me...

    Thank you
    Flavio

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    Replies
    1. Steven FeuersteinJuly 4, 2017 at 2:08 PM

      The code in those other schemas must be compiled with PL/Scope enabled, otherwise there will be no data for them. Other than that, execute should do it.

      Delete
    2. AnonymousJuly 4, 2017 at 2:13 PM

      Thank you, I'll check it out tomorrow.
      Flavio

      Delete
  3. UnknownJuly 24, 2017 at 2:16 AM

    nice post

    ReplyDelete

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