Did you set session_ casched_cursor?
It seems to be library cache contention.
Do you also use synonyms?
If possible, read, Metalink Note : 1012049.6Tuning Library Cache Latch
Contention
Tzanko wrote:
> Hi,
> We have an application using Oracle DB through ADO - Oracle OLEDB
> Provider for Oracle. I am monitoring the performance of the applciation
> with heavy load, and I can see that our hard parse ratio is good (2% of
> queries are being hard-passed) (and we are using bind variables in
> queries that are execured most often), but too many SQL queries are
> soft-parsed - say 80, 90%. We are using ADO and we create the ADO
> connection object and recordset object as required and then release as
> soon as we've finished with them, following ADO recomendations. We
> believe the connection is pooled and therefore it is better to release
> as soon as possible rather than hold it for a duration of a transaction
> or between transactions.
> In this scenario, can anyone suggest what can be done to reduce the
> number of soft parses. Oracle recomend that 30% of soft-parses as a
> treshold. The rest 70% of the queries should not require parsing at
> all.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tzanko
Received on Tue Jun 06 2006 - 02:54:33 CDT
