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We need to be very careful with DDL statements....

Take a look at the following SQL statements...

Select * from employee; -- the table has 1000 records

Insert into employee(emp_id,emp_name,salary)
values('E_101','Susil Kumar',20000);

Insert into employee(emp_id,emp_name,salary)
values('E_102','Sukumar',20000);

Insert into employee(emp_id,emp_name,salary)
values('E_103','Ramuk Lisus',10000);

-- We have not committed the inserts yet

create table employee
as
Select * from employee; -- errors out with exception 'name is already used by an existing object'

rollback; -- We are trying to roll back the data insert operation

Select * from employee where emp_id='E_102'; -- This query returns row though we didnt explicitly commit the changes. It is because we ran Create table statement ( DDL ) which did the trick and ran a commit on this session ....

Conclusion : Be careful when writing DDL statements in a session. Make sure you have rolled back the changes if need be.

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Khaja V Shaik said…
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January 9, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Khaja V Shaik said…
very useful info...nice to know this
January 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM
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