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Exceptions

Exceptions are a fundamental part of any well-written program. They are used to display user-friendly error messages when an error is raised by an application, nondefault exception handling, and sometimes recovery so that an application can continue. Surely you have seen your fair share of ORA-XXXXX error messages. Although these messages are extremely useful to a developer for debugging and correcting issues, they are certainly foreign to the average application user and can be downright frightening to see.

Imagine that you are working with a significant number of updates via an application form, and after you submit ...

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