A PL/SQL function in Oracle can be tagged with a DETERMINISTIC clause, to indicate that the function will always produce the same output for a given input and will have no side effects.
A little elaboration is in order here.
1. …will always produces the same output for a given input
Let’s see this with an example: a function get_primary_phone takes as input customer_id and returns the customer’s primary phone. Internally, the function executes SQL on a customer contact table, ranks and filters the result to get the customer’s primary phone number.
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