Where to Commit

I have heard that it is considered best practices not to put Commits in your packages unless you really have to. Instead the Front End should usually do the commits. What is the reason for this?

Prohan wrote:
Thanks hoek.
Would you consider this summary of your response to be accurate:
Complete transactions should be committed, not procedures/functions.Yes, complete transactions, with*expected* outcomes.
You wrote:
If something goes wrong, and transactions get committed without 'caller/invoker' knowing about it then your data is to be considered as corrupted.
I think you meant "If something goes wrong, and PROCEDURES/FUNCTIONS get committed without 'caller/invoker' knowing about it ..."
The idea is that only part of a transaction will have been completed if something goes wrong, thus ALL changes need to be rolled back Is that an accurate description of what you meant? Yes. Think about it: procedure X succeeds and commits. Procedure Y ( followed after X) fails and commits. Tadah: data corrupted.
You only commit at the end of a complete transaction as in: all business rules/checks etc have been met.
Never ever commit 'in between things'.
Meet the business rule, tell the caller: 'Hey, we're the data and we're still fine after all those checks in the same session, so you can commit safely now'.
And don't you dare to use a WHEN OTHERS.
What exactly did you mean there? Did you mean don't commit under that handler?Never ever commit under a WHEN OTHERS.
Don't use it.
Forget about it's existance and stay out of trouble.

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