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Saurabh K. Gupta
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Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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PL/SQL Function Result Cache


You must create a PL/SQL function with a RESULT_CACHE clause to add its result to the PL/SQL function result cache. When a cache-enabled PL/SQL function is invoked for the first time, the database looks into the PL/SQL result cache for its result with the matching arguments. If the result is found, it is returned to the calling environment without executing the function body. If the result is not found, the function body is executed and the result is stored in the PL/SQL function cache. Upon subsequent function calls for the same input parameters, the result is fetched directly from the cache.

Note that a result cache function doesn't need the dependent database tables to be result-cached.

Note

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 used the RELIES_ON clause to specify the dependent data sources whose state would affect the status of the cached result. The clause was deprecated in Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Does it sound similar to deterministic functions?

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Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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