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Asked: 2026-05-23T13:41:03+00:00

I have an Oracle trigger which is calling a stored procedure that has PRAGMA

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I have an Oracle trigger which is calling a stored procedure that has PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION defined. The values that are passed from the trigger have been committed already but it appears that the values are not available in the stored procedure? I’m not positive of this since the ability to debug/log/commit is difficult and the timing of the output is confusing me a bit. I’d like to know if it’s expected that any passed values are simply available in the stored procedure regardless of the AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION?
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    Values passed in to a stored procedure as parameters will always be available to the stored procedure. It doesn’t matter whether the procedure is declared using an autonomous transaction.

    Code running in an autonomous transaction cannot see changes made by the calling transaction. 9 times out of 10, when people are describing problems seeing the data they expect, this is the source of the problem.

    If your stored procedure is doing anything other than writing something to a log table, I would be exceptionally cautious about using autonomous transactions. If you are using autonomous transactions for anything other than logging, you are almost certainly using them incorrectly. And you are probably introducing a whole host of bugs related to race conditions and transactional integrity.

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