Nestled deep in the heart of the Oracle RDBMS lies DIANA – the ADA pre-compiler which gives all your PL/SQL the once-over before sending it out into the world.
As I’ve mentioned before, DIANA can be a capricious girl, and if you upset her, she’s likely to complain about all sorts of things, some of them entirely spurious.
One such error that she tends to throw out is “PLS-00364 : loop index variable [ some cursor record variable ] use is invalid”. (more…)
The Anti-Kyte
Oracle – for when it was like that when you got there
