Bulk Exceptions in Oracle

Bulk Exceptions

Using BULK COLLECT in PL/SQL blocks and procedures can dramatically speed array processing, but it can, if the DBA isn't prepared, 'hide' any errors that occur in the bulk processing list. A 'plain vanilla' EXCEPTION handler may not report all errors that are thrown. Let's look at an example intentionally set up to fail inserts based on data from the EMP table. Table M is created with the EMP columns slightly re-ordered so the data types don't match up to the source: