http://maggienelson.com/2007/07/how-to-and-how-not-to-pass-an-array-from-php-to-the-database/ databases and code goodness Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:53:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://maggienelson.com/2007/07/how-to-and-how-not-to-pass-an-array-from-php-to-the-database/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Christopher Jones Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:30:05 +0000 http://maggienelson.com/blog/?p=16#comment-11 Hi Maggie, Can you share any results to show the performance improvement? Another optimization for your example is to use the bulk FORALL statement. So instead of the PL/SQL code: for i in p_toy_ids.first .. p_toy_ids.last loop insert into user_toy ( user_id, toy_id) values ( p_user_id, p_toy_ids(i)); end loop; You could use: forall i in indices of p_toy_ids insert into user_toy ( user_id, toy_id) values ( p_user_id, p_toy_ids(i)); A side note for users of the OCI8 extension is that oci_bind_array_by_name() lets you pass an array without needing an intermediate function like parse_string_to_list_string(). Hi Maggie,
Can you share any results to show the performance improvement?
Another optimization for your example is to use the bulk FORALL statement. So instead of the PL/SQL code:
for i in p_toy_ids.first .. p_toy_ids.last loop
insert into user_toy (
user_id,
toy_id)
values (
p_user_id,
p_toy_ids(i));
end loop;
You could use:
forall i in indices of p_toy_ids
insert into user_toy (
user_id,
toy_id)
values (
p_user_id,
p_toy_ids(i));
A side note for users of the OCI8 extension is that oci_bind_array_by_name() lets you pass an array without needing an intermediate function like parse_string_to_list_string().

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