RE: Why we should use bind variables when we write code......

Mark,  

I can't comment on Java, but for Perl, look at the DBD::Oracle documentation
(http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.52/DBI.pm#Placeholders_and_Bind_Valu es). For Python, look at this
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/devlin-python-oracle.html  

Hope this is a help.  

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Ron Reidy

Lead DBA

Array BioPharma, Inc.  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Bobak, Mark Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:37 AM To: oracle-l
Subject: Why we should use bind variables when we write code......  

So, last week, one of my instances starts getting ORA-4031s, and after a few minutes, comes crashing down when a background process (lmd0, I think it was) catches an ORA-4031. So, with the instance down, it's a bit tough to see what happened. So, we start things up again, and I start watching closely over the next few days. Seems there's lots of code that doesn't bother with binds. In some cases, there are a dozen non-sharable SQLs that are identical except for literals, in other cases, up to hundreds. (Thanks to T.Kyte for the script that I'm using to identify non-sharable SQL.) After a few days, I find the smoking gun. One single SQL statement that has 3,424 copies that are identical except for literals. (No, that's not a typo.) This is taking up abour 75% of the 475M of shared pool that's dedicated to the sql area. One single SQL statement, 75%. Yikes!

So, now I'm on an education kick. "This is the way we do things when we don't want to kill the Oracle database server!"

So, my question is, is there a resource, online or otherwise, that has examples of proper bind variable usage in various languages? I can cover C/Pro*C, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, but what about Java, Perl, Python, etc,etc? I'm not much of a coder lately, and I want proper examples that can be shown to developers, in whatever is the language of choice.

Thanks,

-Mark

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Mark J. Bobak
Senior Oracle Architect
ProQuest Information & Learning

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