Re: JBoss keeps sending select 'hello' from dual

  • From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:09:50 -0700

Don't keep us in suspense like that.

What was it?


Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist



On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:47 PM, <Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Never mind.
>
> I tried some different search terms in Google after sending this out and
> think I've found the answer.  Sorry about that.
>
>
> Jay Miller
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:34 PM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: JBoss keeps sending select 'hello' from dual
>
> While investigating some performance issues on two unrelated databases
> one of the odd things we found was a huge number of "select 'hello' from
> dual"
> statements hitting the databases (as in over a million/hour).
>
> Further investigation leads us to believe that this is a standard
> feature of JBoss connection pooling and the method it uses to check if a
> connection is still alive but we couldn't find any real details on it.
>
> Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this before and can point
> me to additional information or any way of reducing its impact.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay Miller
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