Compiling Procedures/Packages/Functions

Question

I'm fairly new to the arena of compiling Procedures/Packages/Funcitons but I was given the task of updating a development DB with a lot of newly created/updated Objects. I have created a shell script to go through all the new files and create or replace all the new objects in sqlplus. My question is how to compile all the newly created objects and their dependencies correctly? I have been using SQL Developer to verify that everything has compiled but I see that some are marked invalid which I assume is because a dependency was compiled after it. What would be my best way to making sure everything is valid? I hope this makes sense but any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use a script like this to build your own sql statement to compile the invalid objects. You can add your own statement for other object types at the end with a union, ie TYPE body.
You will probably need to run it repeated until all objects are VALID. You can put it in a PL/SQL block with a loop and execute immediate so reduce the manual work.
--PACKAGE
select 'alter package ' || object_name || ' compile;' from user_objects
WHERE Status = 'INVALID'
and object_type= 'PACKAGE'
union
-- PACKAGE BODY
select 'alter package ' || object_name || ' compile body;' from user_objects
WHERE Status = 'INVALID'
and object_type= 'PACKAGE BODY'
union
--PROCEDURE
select 'alter procedure ' || object_name || ' compile;' from user_objects
WHERE Status = 'INVALID'
and object_type= 'PROCEDURE'
union
--FUNCTION
select 'alter function ' || object_name || ' compile;' from user_objects
WHERE Status = 'INVALID'
and object_type= 'FUNCTION'
union
--TRIGGER
select 'alter trigger ' || object_name || ' compile;' from user_objects
WHERE Status = 'INVALID'
and object_type= 'TRIGGER'
union
--VIEW
select 'alter view ' || object_name || ' compile;' from user_objects
WHERE Status = 'INVALID'
and object_type= 'VIEW'