RE: JAVA Developer

Thanks Norman,

BTW, what is £0.02 (two pence)? :)

Joel Patterson
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:33 AM
To: Bernard.Polarski_at_atosorigin.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org; Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us; Laimutis.Nedzinskas_at_landsbanki.is Subject: RE: JAVA Developer

Morning All,

sorry to join the party late, but I'm in the UK and was asleep when you all started :o)

No-one has yet mentioned that most developers doe something like the following :

begin
  parse statement
  bind variables
  execute statement
  process results
end

or even worse :

begin loop
  parse statement
  bind variables
  execute statement
  process results
end loop

so the so called prepared statement is treated as just another unprepared statement. The code really should be as follows :

begin
  if statement in not yet prepared then     parse statement
  end if

  bind variables
  execute statement
  process results
end

or

if statement in not yet prepared then
  parse statement
end if

begin loop
  bind variables
  execute statement
  process results
end loop

This reduces the parse to execute ratio from 1:1 (or worse, some development systems pre-parse the statement to allow for the fetching of 'better' information in case of errors (credit : Cary Mlilsap) - giving a 2:1 p:e ratio).

Not picking on Java developers here by the way, I see it in PL/SQL as well.

Just my £0.02.

Cheers,
Norman.

Norman Dunbar.
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