"Howie Goodell" <howie.goodell_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello --
>
> I am trying to optimise a JDBC connection and an Oracle 9i database
> for reading millions of records at a time to a 1 Gig PC running Win2K
> or XP. Two questions:
>
> 1. Does anyone have suggestions for optimising an Oracle 9i server
> (Enterprise Edition, Release 2) for networked read-only JDBC access
> with large return sets? With default settings MySQL reads 1M records
> 2.5 times faster than Oracle even on its first, non-cached execution.
>
> 2. Unrelated question: is there a way to read a text field via JDBC
> without creating a String object? The memory and GC overheads of
> creating millions of objects are becoming a problem, too.
>
> Thanks much!
> Howie Goodell
Try increasing the array fetch or batch fetch to like 100 or so. Also use
prepared statements and reexecute. You can use the oci driver and it should
be faster.
Jim
Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 19:40:13 CDT
