Exactly true. The odds that they aren't using bind variables is very high
anyway. So it is a cheap guess.
Jim
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"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message
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> Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> > Often high CPU usage is an indication of lack of bind
> > variables in an application.
>
> Could be. Could not be.
>
> High CPU usage is however *not* a Bad Thing (tm).
>
> CPU's are there to work. An idle CPU is useless. High CPU utlisation
should
> mean _effective_ use of CPU resources. That is what one should be aiming
> for (as oppose to some who seem to think that performance tuning means
> trying to get a high as possible idle time on the CPU).
>
> --
> Billy
Received on Fri Jun 27 2003 - 06:24:13 CDT
