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What Happens If Recursive Calls Get Out of Control?

April 26, 2017CONTROL happens Recursive

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What Happens If Recursive Calls Get Out of Control?

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What happens if your code has bug on recursive procedure calls, which causes an infinite number nested procedure calls? The answer is so good. Oracle server seems to offer no protection calling stack limit. The script below shows you a badly coded recursive procedure. If you run it on an Oracle 10g XE server on Windows, your server will out of control and keep using virtual memory to satisfy the growing calling stack. You have to reboot your server to control back.