Should procedures and/or functions of the DBMS_STANDARD package be used in PL/SQL code?
Recently, I encountered a BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE trigger on a table. In this trigger, the author relies on the INSERTING and UPDATING functions (both return a BOOLEAN) of the DBMS_STANDARD package to determine if the trigger was fired before an insert or before an update. For example: CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER CUSTOMER_TRIGGER BEFOR...