Re: UTL_FILE

From: Leonard F Clark <lfc_at_zoom.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:21:42 GMT
Message-ID: <39ce4fae.15024604@125.0.0.1>

Bhupesh,

I don't really see why size of database should make a difference. Of course, it depends what you plan to *do* with utl_file.

If anything, if a large database means that you are writing large logs, using utl_file rather than storing them in tables could make it easier to manage growth.

Of course, there *is* a performance overhead to writing to the o/s so, if you have a job that is slow, using utl-file will slow it up; if the job involves, say, looping 3 million times, a put_line in the loop will mean 3,000,000 times the little overhead.

You could benchmark this by doing the same query with and without put_line.

Len

>I would like to know What are the Drawback of using UTL_FILE
>for large database ?
>
>BHUPESH
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Received on Sun Sep 24 2000 - 14:21:42 CDT