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Oracle Database - (Application) Context

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Table of Contents
1 - About
2 - Articles Related
3 - Privileges
4 - Steps
4.1 - Creation of the Contexts
4.2 - Creation of the package
4.3 - Call in the Context empno_ctx
4.4 - Call in the Context myContext
5 - Documentation / Reference

1 - About
An application context is a set of (name-value|variable-value) pairs that Oracle Database stores in
memory during asession.

Oracle provides a built-in namespace calledUSERENV, which describes the current session
parameter.

This context are managed with the following commandos:

SYS_CONTEXTto return the value of a parameter

CREATE CONTEXT

2 - Articles Related
Oracle Database - Session
Oracle Database - Userenv (Current Session Informations)

3 - Privileges
As Sysdba:

-- SYSTEM PRIVILEGES
GRANT CREATE ANY CONTEXT TO "HR" ;

4 - Steps

4.1 - Creation of the Contexts

As HR:

CREATE OR REPLACE CONTEXT empno_ctx USING set_context_variable_package;

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CREATE OR REPLACE CONTEXT myContext USING set_context_variable_package;

A context must be use within a package otherwise you will get an ORA-01031: insufficient
privileges.

4.2 - Creation of the package

As HR:

CREATE OR REPLACE
PACKAGE set_context_variable_package
IS

PROCEDURE set_empno;

PROCEDURE set_variable_value(
n VARCHAR2,
v VARCHAR2);

END;
/

CREATE OR REPLACE
PACKAGE BODY set_context_variable_package
IS
-- dbms_session.set_context
-- can only be called within the package to which it belongs
-- If you try to execute DBMS_SESSION.SET_CONTEXT you'll get an error, as
-- shown here:
-- ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

PROCEDURE set_empno
IS
emp_id NUMBER;
BEGIN

SELECT
EMPLOYEE_ID
INTO
emp_id
FROM
HR.EMPLOYEES
WHERE
email = SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV', 'SESSION_USER');

DBMS_SESSION.SET_CONTEXT('empno_ctx', 'employee_id', emp_id);

EXCEPTION

WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN

NULL;

END;

PROCEDURE set_variable_value(

n VARCHAR2,
v VARCHAR2)
AS
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AS
BEGIN
DBMS_SESSION.set_context('myContext',n,v);
END;

END;
/

4.3 - Call in the Context empno_ctx

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