Re: Forall performance

After taking a second look at your SQL, I realized your direct-path insert hint is basically useless. You have to use

insert/*+ append */ into .. select ... from ...

for it to work. It does not matter if you turn off the logging, this SQL will be logged, and undo info. will be generated. So, in addition to the redo log sizing, you have to consider rollback segments as well. Though small redo logs is more likely to be the root of your problem in this case.

How do you use direct-path insert within forall then? It may not be possible with current version of ORACLE. If you use

insert/*+ append */ into .. select array_name(i) from dual;

you get ORA-12838. I have yet to see a solution to this.

• Jusung Yang

JusungYang_at_yahoo.com (Jusung Yang) wrote in message news:<130ba93a.0302131547.42e49ce3_at_posting.google.com>...
> Just a guess. When you are inserting large amount of data, the time
> saving you get from forall may be covered up by the inefficient redo
> log managemnet of your database. Even though you use direct load
> insert, the transaction is still logged - unless you turn off the
> logging. What are your redo log sizes? Try increasing the size and see
> what happen.
>
>
> - Jusung Yang
>
>
> vinnyop_at_yahoo.com (Vince) wrote in message news:<56e2f55a.0302131010.544f53cc_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I am working on a batch interface of data. The size of the batch
> > averages about 150,000 rows. It is important that each record be
> > evaluated separately. As such, I wrote code to fetch a single row from
> > a temp table, perform validation and a little scrubbing, then insert
> > the row and repeat x150k. I do this to trap errors at the row level.
> >
> > Configuration:
> > Oracle 8.1.7
> > Linux
> > SGA :
> > Shared: 278MB
> > Buffer Cache: 156MB
> > Large Pool: 1MB
> >
> > Wanting to improve the performance I started testing with building
> > tables and using the FORALL statement. Everything remained the same
> > except instead of inserting the row into the db table, I inserted a
> > row into pl/sql tables (have to use many as 8.1.7. does not allow
> > FORALL with record type tables). At the end of the procedure is where
> > the FORALL now resides.
> >
> > What I observe is no performance gain or an insignificant difference.
> > So I thought extensively on what could be the problem. All the
> > examples posted here, Ask Tom, etc. show significant gains, but all
> > the examples use simple one or two column insert statements. My FORALL
> > has 15 columns and looks like this:
> >
> > FORALL i IN p_starting_point..temp_ma_id.COUNT
> > INSERT /*+ APPEND */ INTO sometable
> > VALUES (
> > temp_id(i), --number(18) -values are 10 digits
> > temp_ma_id(i), --number(18) -values are 10 digits
> > temp_amt(i), --number(9,2)
> > temp_cdm_id(i), --number(18) -values are 10 digits
> > temp_hcpcs(i), --varchar2(5)
> > temp_mod1(i), --varchar2(2)
> > temp_mod2(i), --varchar2(2)
> > temp_mod3(i), --varchar2(2)
> > temp_mod4(i), --varchar2(2)
> > temp_post(i), --date
> > temp_qty(i), --number(4)
> > temp_svcdt(i), --date
> > temp_revcd(i), --varchar2(3)
> > temp_datec(i), --date
> > NULL
> > );
> >
> > The target table has about 9 million rows and has a single column
> > primary key/index and 2 single column foreign key indexes. The table
> > is growing at somewhere about 1 million per month.
> >
> > I then tweaked the code a bit and fire the FORALL insert after x rows
> > (then empty the array) and saw a significant improvement in
> > performance (about 40% better: 150k rows now takes about 3.2 minutes).
> > I varied x (between 1,000 all the way to 50,000) to find the optimal
> > value and found the smallest, 1,000 performs best. I haven't tried
> > values less than that.
> >
> > I was somewhat surprised that this would be necessary, although there
> > is an obvious tradeoff of memory at stake.
> >
> > Does anyone else have similar results? Are there other considerations
> > for FORALL usage?
Received on Fri Feb 14 2003 - 12:00:01 CST