Since my last post about the undocumented pragmas in Oracle, I have found more information about the FIPSFLAG pragma directive and more specifically about the FIPS part of it. Jens commented about the existence of a session parameter FLAGGER and its possible relationship with FIPSFLAG and FIPS. After a bit of searching, here is what […]

A few weeks ago I blogged about PRAGMAs in PL/SQL. As you all know, as of the current release of PL/SQL, we have 4 documented pragma directives: AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION, RESTRICT_REFERENCES, EXCEPTION_INIT and SERIALLY_REUSABLE.

Karl posted a comment to draw my attention to the fact that in the SYS.STANDARD PL/SQL package, Oracle uses three additional undocumented pragma directives: […]