Oracle PL/SQL - Are NO_DATA_FOUND Exceptions bad for stored procedure performance?

Question

I\'m writing a stored procedure that needs to have a lot of conditioning in it. With the general knowledge from C#.NET coding that exceptions can hurt performance, I\'ve always

Answer 1

Yes, you're missing using cursors

DECLARE
  CURSOR foo_cur IS 
    SELECT NEEDED_FIELD WHERE condition ;
BEGIN
  OPEN foo_cur;
  FETCH foo_cur INTO foo_rec;
  IF foo_cur%FOUND THEN
     ...
  END IF;
  CLOSE foo_cur;
EXCEPTION
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
    CLOSE foo_cur;
    RAISE;
END ;

admittedly this is more code, but it doesn't use EXCEPTIONs as flow-control which, having learnt most of my PL/SQL from Steve Feuerstein's PL/SQL Programming book, I believe to be a good thing.

Whether this is faster or not I don't know (I do very little PL/SQL nowadays).