Process non-consecutive array items in FORALL

Executing Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements within a PL/SQL loop is time consuming because each time through the loop a switch is made from the PL/SQL engine to the SQL engine. A better approach is to use the FORALL statement, which passes the SQL statement only once along with a collection of fill-in values.

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