RE: Cursor Sharing| Soft Parsing

OK, I think this explains a lot with the introduction of the new and highly technical term, "softer parse." So we have the hard parse, the soft parse, and the softer parse.
You can get or derive stats for all three: 1) hard parses = "parse count (hard)"
2) soft parses (AKA parse calls) = "parse count (total)" minus "parse count (hard)"
3) softer parses = "session cursor cache hits"

I guess "soft parses" also include "softer parses" in 2 above.

Whew... it's like you have to be a lawyer to "parse" the Oracle documentation and reconcile it with the facts in the v$ tables.

Let just call this the parse farce episode in our chronicles of the pursuit of Oracular truth. Someone please tell me it's Friday.

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Mr. Kyte's parsing explanation is also in this iss of OraMag. For the papyrus-impaired:

http://www.oramag.com/oramag/oracle/02-jul/index.html?o42asktom.html

(Be safe: Download page to laptop or PDA before taking to bathroom)

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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> I checked the Tom Kyte site. A soft parse comprises two

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