Someone trying to outperform Oracle's cache
The following code is from a migration project I’m working on. It is part of a package named PERFORMANCE and is run every 15 minutes: Declare test number; Cursor c_worklist Is select * from v_worklist where id = v_id; Begin FOR rec IN c_worklist LOOP test := 0; -- does nothing END LOOP; end; A nice little wtf-snippet. The purpose? According to “the vendor” the cursor that loops through every row in a view is supposed to keep the data in Oracle’s cache, and if not in place some web service will time out. I believe we have better tools to keep stuff in cache.