RE: Shared Pool Tuning

If I recall correctly, hard parse grabs a bunch of latches; and the bigger the shared pool, the worse the latch contention can get. Although it seems counter intuitive, I think, in this case, the piece of duct tape you apply is to REDUCE the size of the shared pool.

>-----Original Message-----
>When the
>shared pool "fills up", all that means is that additional SQL
>which gets
>hard parsed must move some other SQL out of the shared pool.
>This is not a
>problem unless the SQL moved out is needed again.

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