RE: Strangeness

Thanks for the input Jonathan, I will pass the relevant parts on to the development team responsible.

Regards

Lee

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If you can re-run both programs, I'd check the amount of:

    undo
    redo
    redo synch writes.
and of course the v$session_event/wait,
and there's always the rows_processed
column from v$sql. All quick ways of
checking for symptoms, which may give
you a clue about cause.

It is possible that a minor bug in the Pro*C could mean that each update was updating every single row in the table on every update (don't laugh, I've seen it before), whereas the PL/SQL, being easier to read and write, is coded correctly.

Is it possible that the Pro*C uses an 'in-house library' for its updates that generates code to update every column in the table ? Whereas the PL/SQL is hand-coded to update only the changed columns

Is the code doing single row commits inside a loop ? I wouldn't expect this to make a factor of 100 difference (correct my arithmetic if it's wrong), but PL/SQL cheats on commits in loops, and the saving can be significant.

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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 08 March 2002 11:21

|Oracle 8.0.5.0.0
|Tru64 4.0f
|
|We have a process running here and without going into the detail of
it we
|have a Pro C program that is taking ages to run updates and selects
(2
|hours to do 10000 records). The program was changed to PL/SQL and we
|suddenly were seeing 5 million records processed in 1 hour.
|
|Is PL/SQL that much faster than Pro C. Can somone more in the know
give me
|some hints ??
|
|TIA
|

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