Re: Performance of embedded cursors???

Kris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been writing a stored procedure and am trying to use embedded
> cursors (3 level of nesting) for the first time. My immediate concern
> is that, now the data set is small but it is expected to explode and
> grow very big in future. All I want to know is that if some one has
> used embedded cursors, please shed some light on possible performance
> bottlenecks/issues ..
>
>
> More over I am using 'start with' and 'connect by' clause in these
> embedded cursors .. the query is going to look some what like
>
> WQ_QUERY := 'select C.claim_exposure_id, cursor(select level,
> A.folder_id, A.folder_name, A.parent_folder_id, '||
> 'cursor(select level, document_id, parent_document_id, descriptor from
> clm_document B where b.folder_id = a.folder_id '||
> 'start with parent_document_id is null connect by prior document_id =
> parent_document_id '||
> ') X from clm_folder A where A.claim_id = C.Claim_Id '||
> 'start with a.parent_folder_id is null connect by prior a.folder_id =
> a.parent_folder_id) Y '||
> 'from clm_claim_exposure C where claim_id = :1';
>
> open retcur for WQ_QUERY using in_claim_number;
>
> Please help..
>
> Thanks :)

Is there a question here somewhere?

I only see one issue: You need to produce a lot of test data and use it for testing.

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