Oracle setExecuteBatch() func

Question

So within my code I have setup an execute batch to be run every 5000 queries. Using the setExecuteBatch() method specific to the oracle api, like so:
((OraclePreparedStatement)broker.pstmt).setExecuteBatch(5000);
broker.pstmt.executeUpdate();
So when I call executeUpdate() on a preparedstatement execution will only occur when the batch has 5000 records in it.
However, if let's say the query 1000 within the 5000 query batch is incorrect and Oracle is executing the batch a SQLException will be triggered.
Is there a way to know exactly where within the batch this error has occured ? I.e which of those 5000 queries is erroneous.

Answer 1

From the JDBC 3.0 Specification - Final Release
(jdbc-3_0-fr-spec.pdf) available for downloading from the Sun site:
15.1.3 Handling Failures during Execution
A JDBC driver may or may not continue processing the
remaining commands in a batch once execution of a command fails.
However, a JDBC driver must always provide the same behaviour with a
particular data source. For example, a driver
cannot continue processing after a failure for one batch and not
continue processing for another batch.
If a driver stops processing after the first failure, the array
returned by the method BatchUpdateException.getUpdateCounts will always
contain fewer entries than there were statements in the batch. Since
statements are executed in the order that they are added to the batch,
if the array contains N elements, this means that the first N elements
in the batch were processed successfully when executeBatch was called.
When a driver continues processing in the presence of failures, the
number of elements in the array returned by the method
BatchUpdateException.getUpdateCounts always equals the number of
commands in the batch. When a BatchUpdateException object is thrown and
the driver continues processing after a failure, the array of update
counts will contain the following BatchUpdateException constant:
* Statement.EXECUTE_FAILED � the command failed to execute successfully.
This value is also returned for commands that could not be processed
for some reason�such commands fail implicitly.