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In article <34F45BA9.14E4_at_ictgroup.com>, Jerry Gitomer <jgitomer_at_ictgroup.com> wrote:
>Increasing the shared pool size will reduce disk I/O by allowing more of
>the sorts generated by order by and group by clauses to be done in
>memory.
This reduces recursive SQL, which is the disk I/O associated with resolving objects, permissions etc. Also the shared pool keeps PL/SQL stored procedures, and SQL queries. The sort_area_size parameter affects the cache memory for sorting.
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