Re: Cursor Sharing| Soft Parsing

Ian,

Quoting James Morle here re session_cached_cursors:

Once in the session cursor cache, and CLOSE calls to the cursor are ignored, and the statement does not need to be reparsed, up to the number of cursors specified in the init.ora.

There is far too much here on cursors to reproduce in an email.

Morle identifies three types of soft parses, this was the third.

Jared

On Thursday 25 July 2002 09:59, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote:
> Possibly burying myself deeper: Parsing is done at the open call. If a
> cursor needs to be re-opened, Oracle will check for permissions whether
> cursors are cached or not.
>
> Some experiments. First just using bind variables in the statement.
>
> SQL> alter session set session_cached_cursors = 10;
>
> Session altered.
>
> SQL> VARIABLE V_EMPNO NUMBER
>
> BEGIN
>
> :V_EMPNO := 7934;
>
> END;
> /
> SQL> select ename from scott.emp where empno = :v_empno;
>
> ENAME
> ----------
> MILL
>
> As this is the first statement. I would expect hard and soft parsing to be
> taking place.
>
> SQL> BEGIN
> 2 :V_EMPNO := 7782;
> 3 END;
> 4 /
>
> PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
> SQL> select ename from scott.emp where empno = :v_empno;
>
> ENAME
> ----------
> CLARK
>
> What type of parsing is done here. The statement is in the buffer pool
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>---------------------- If "scott" revokes privileges
>
> and the above statement is rerun
>
> SQL> /
> select ename from scott.emp where empno = :v_empno
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>------------------- Scott restores privileges ...
>
> SQL> variable my_select refcursor;
> SQL> BEGIN
> 2 OPEN :my_select FOR SELECT ename from s
> 3 END;
> 4 /
>
> PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
> SQL> print my_select
>
> ENAME
> ----------
> SMITH
> ALLEN
> WARD
> JONES
> MARTIN
> BLAKE
> SCOTT
> KING
> TURNER
> ADAMS
> JAMES
> FORD
> MILL
> CLARK
>
> 14 rows selected.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------- Print closes the cursor.
>
> If "scott" revokes permisssions at this point.
>
> SQL> BEGIN
> 2 OPEN :my_select FOR SELECT ename from scott.emp;
> 3 END;
> 4 /
> OPEN :my_select FOR SELECT ename from scott.emp;
> *
> ERROR at line 2:
> ORA-06550: line 2, column 45:
> PLS-00904: insufficient privilege to access object SCOTT.EMP
> ORA-06550: line 2, column 21:
> PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-------------------- However if scott restores permissions
>
> SQL> BEGIN
> 2 OPEN :my_select FOR SELECT ename from scott.emp;
> 3 END;
> 4 /
>
> PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
>
> and now revokes them here.
>
> The print statement will still work
>
> SQL> print my_sele
>
> ENAME
> ----------
> SMITH
> ALLEN
> WARD
> JONES
> MARTIN
> BLAKE
> SCOTT
> KING
> TURNER
> ADAMS
> JAMES
> FORD
> MILL
> CLARK
>
> 14 rows selected.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------- So how does one keep such cursors open. Given a
> cursor such as
>
> BEGIN
> OPEN :my_select FOR SELECT ename from scott.emp
> where empno = :v_empno;
> END;
>
> How does one display the information, change the value of :v_empno, and
> display the infromation again without re-opening the cursor.
>
> In the distant past when I was writing a lot of Pro*C I'd get the
> occaisional fetch out of sequence error when I would change the value of
> a bind variable and try to fetch without first opening the cursor. Doesn't
> one have to re-opne to rebind.
>
> N.B. mail sent in haste -- late for an appointment.
>
> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:38 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 22:08, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote:
> > Please define soft parsing. Oracle needs to check that the user
> > submitting a SQL statement has permissions to run it. It has to do this
> > every time a statement is run, bind variables or not.
>
> No, code that uses bind variables need only parse SQL statements
> once if session_cached_cursors is set. Further executions of the same
> SQL don't require a hard or soft parse.
>
> Jared
>
> > When "cursor-sharing" converts a statement to use bind variables it
> > would save on hard parsing, if a match were found the pool; also, it
> > could lessen the number of statements present in the pool.
> >
> > Ian MacGregor
> > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> > ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:23 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Mike, Kirti,
> >
> > Try page 441
> >
> > CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE does improve badly written applications that use
> > lots of literals.
> > However coding should be done using bind variables in almost all
> > occasions.
> >
> > CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE reduces the hard parsing.
> >
> > What CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE does is rewrites all queries to use bind
> > variables before parsing.
> >
> > eg. select ename from emp where empno = 10;
> > rewritten as
> > select ename from emp where empno =:SYS_B_0
> > or in 8.1.6 , 8.1.7
> > select name from emp where empno =:"SYS_B_0"
> >
> > So it substitutes the literal with bind variables but incurs the cost of
> > soft parsing the statement.
> > Soft Parsing too frequently limits the scalability of applications and
> > sacrifices optimal performance which could have been achieved in the
> > first place if written using bind variables.
> >
> > Parse once and execute as many times as we like.
> >
> > Also check out Bjorn's paper on bind variables and cursor sharing at
> > http://technet.oracle.com/deploy/performance/pdf/cursor.pdf
> >
> > So CURSOR sharing is not the "silver bullet" as one may expect.
> >
> > Regards
> > Suhen
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:23, you wrote:
> > > Mike,
> > > What is the version of the database? Some versions of 8.1.7 had a few
> > > bugs when this parameter was set to FORCE. I suggest searching
> > > Metalink. But it does work as advertised in later releases. I would
> > > also recommend reviewing Tom Kytes' book to read about his views in
> > > using this parameter at the instance level (my boss is reading my copy,
> > > so I can't give you page #s).
> > >
> > > - Kirti
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 6:08 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone set Cursor Sharing to Force ?
> > > I have a new system that we have to support
> > > and there is alot literals filling up the
> > > pool. I have never changed this parameter
> > > from the default as many seemed to think the
> > > jury was still out on it. However, due to
> > > my situation, I figured I would try it out.
> > > If anyone has any experience with this one
> > > I would be curious to know what happened.
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
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