Continuing Inserts in Oracle when exception is raised

Question

I\'m working on migration of data from a legacy system into our new app(running on Oracle Database, 10gR2). As part of the migration, I\'m working on a script which inserts

Answer 1

If the data volumes were higher, row-by-row processing in PL/SQL would probably be too slow. In those circumstances, you can use DML error logging, described here

CREATE TABLE raises (emp_id NUMBER, sal NUMBER 
   CONSTRAINT check_sal CHECK(sal > 8000));

EXECUTE DBMS_ERRLOG.CREATE_ERROR_LOG('raises', 'errlog');

INSERT INTO raises
   SELECT employee_id, salary*1.1 FROM employees
   WHERE commission_pct > .2
   LOG ERRORS INTO errlog ('my_bad') REJECT LIMIT 10;

SELECT ORA_ERR_MESG$, ORA_ERR_TAG$, emp_id, sal FROM errlog;

ORA_ERR_MESG$               ORA_ERR_TAG$         EMP_ID SAL
--------------------------- -------------------- ------ -------
ORA-02290: check constraint my_bad               161    7700
 (HR.SYS_C004266) violated