I got to work and had a lot of email to deal with. Another developer dropped back and said he was having problem with a script he wrote. It was supposed to insert 180+ records. But only 15 records were working. I told him I was busy, but he should run the thing from SQL*Plus to ensure some tool as not confusing him.Later the developer returned and said he needed help badly. People were calling him asking him for the completed script. I took a look and indeed only 15 records were in the table after he ran the script. I went through he whole script and found an exception handler at the end. It logged and error and exited.
The developer thought the script was running successfully. But the exception handler was masking the true error. A primary key constraint was being violated. As soon as he got rid of the duplicate inserts in his code, the thing worked fine. You can start with another sample script to speed development. But make sure you know what you are starting with.
