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11g Release 2 (11.2)

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Exception Declaration

An exception declaration declares the name of a user-defined exception. You can use the EXCEPTION_INIT pragma to assign this name to an internally defined exception.

Topics

Syntax

exception_declaration ::=

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Semantics

exception

Name of the exception that you are declaring.

Restriction on exception

You can use exception only in an EXCEPTION_INIT pragma, RAISE statement, RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR invocation, or exception handler.

Caution:

Oracle recommends against using a predefined exception name for exception. For details, see "Redeclared Predefined Exceptions". For a list of predefined exception names, see Table 11-3.

Examples

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