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Thanks Jonathan for the information . Let me go through raw -trace file once
more to get info . Everytime I go through it I find something interesting .
-ak
>
> The examples you have given are SYS-recursive,
>
> The call to cdef$ is Oracle looking for some information
> about constraints (one possibility is that you keep breaking
> a PK or UK constraint and Oracle has to keep looking up
> the name of the constraint because it doesn't cache constraint
> names).
>
> The call to seq$ usually appears because you are using
> a sequence with a very small, or no, CACHE set - so
> as you get the next value from the sequence, oracle has
> to bump the sequence high-water value and write it to
> disc.
>
> In general, the recursive depth simply tells you how
> far down the stack of calls your cursor is. For example
> (which may be wrong in detail, but right in gist) if you
> execute an anonymous pl/sql which runs an SQL statement
> that uses a sequence.nextval that happens to bump
> the sequence high-water, you would (probably see):
>
>
> anonymous pl/sql dep = 0
> SQL statement dep = 1
> update seq$ statement dep = 3
>
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
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> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: 12 March 2003 16:15
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>
> > Thanks Jonathan,
> > what is meaning of recursive depth ? I see calls to cdef$, seq$
> > tables/views does it hint something . I though procedure is using
> some
> > sequence and these are internal calls to generate seq numbers . Is
> that rite
> > ?
> >
> > -ak
> >
> >
>
>
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