Are global temporary tables in Oracle 10.2 behaving differently?

Question

My procedure is creating and inserting data into a Global Temporary Table (on commit data is preserved). I am running this procedure in two different environments.
The first environment is running under Oracle 10.2 and after the procedure runs successfully I can not see any data inserted in the GTT.
When I run the very same procedure in the second environment which runs under Oracle 9.2, it works fine, runs successfully and I can see all rows inserted in the GTT.
Can someone explain this? What should I do differently in the Oracle 10.2? Any thoughts?
Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Hi,
The following TEMPORARY table is created with the attribute, ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS. This allows an application to load registration entries into the global temporary table and manipulate that data with SQL statements. The data is deleted upon each commit with the clause ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS.
CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE student_reg_entries
student_name VARCHAR2(30),
reg_entries reg_entry_varray_type
) ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS;
Replace ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS with ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS to retain temporary table data throughout the database session, regardless of any commits made during that session.
The following illustrates a PL/SQL block that populates this temporary table with two classes each for two students. It makes no difference how many other applications are currently using this temporary global table for similar purposes. For the code below, two rows are inserted, then a COMMIT, after which a SELECT shows that the table is empty.
DECLARE
classes_to_take reg_entry_varray_type :=
reg_entry_varray_type();
BEGIN
classes_to_take := reg_entry_varray_type(
reg_entry('CS101', 'C' ),
reg_entry('HST310', 'C' ));
INSERT INTO student_reg_entries VALUES
('John', classes_to_take);
classes_to_take := reg_entry_varray_type(
reg_entry('ENG102', 'C' ),
reg_entry('BIO201', 'C' ));
INSERT INTO student_reg_entries VALUES
('Mary', classes_to_take);
END;
This next SELECT returns two rows:
SQL> SELECT * FROM student_reg_entries;
Row 1:
John
REG_ENTRY_VARRAY_TYPE
(REG_ENTRY('CS101','C'), REG_ENTRY('HST310','C'))
Row 2:
Mary
REG_ENTRY_VARRAY_TYPE
(REG_ENTRY('ENG102','C'), REG_ENTRY('BIO201','C'))
A COMMIT automatically deletes rows making the table available for the next session transaction.
SQL> COMMIT;
SQL> SELECT * from student_reg_entries;
no rows selected
The full information about this article is in the link I post before, I'm just showing this extract of the article because some people don't like to read links....
Cheers,
Francisco Munoz Alvarez
http://www.oraclenz.com