The FORALL statement offers a way to reduce context switches while executing the same non-query DML (e.g., an update statement) multiple times, with different bind values. It also has a whole bunch of knobs and switches to get the most out of it. In this Office Hours session, Steven and Chris explore some of the more advanced aspects of FORALL, including handling sparse collections with INDICES OF and VALUES OF, FORALL with dynamic SQL, and more.

Highlights

00:10 Introduction, review of resources for Oracle Database developers
06:47 Agenda for the session
07:26 Create table from view taking 3-4 days?!
10:30 Quick review of FORALL
11:47 FORALL and sparse collections
16:37 Working with INDICES OF
20:40 Advanced use case for INDICES OF
24:41 Impact on SQL%BULK* pseudo collections
28:25 Working with VALUES OF
31:05 FORALL and dynamic SQL
33:21 Converting from row-by-row to bulk processing