Here's an oddity. One of my app owners recently moved to a new reporting
server. The old one had the 11g client on linux, the new one has the 12c client
on windows.
He has a number of reports automated to run through sqlplus and spool to a
file. After the move a report that previously took only minutes to run took 8
hours. On the database side it shows all the extra time spent on sqlnet message
to/from client.
My first thought was that it was caused by network latency from the new
location. traceroute/tracert did show a few more hops and a few more ms.
However, when he tested running the same query through jdbc rather than sqlnet
and spooling the output to the same location the report returned in minutes
again.
My next thought was to increase the sdu setting to the maximum on the client
and database sqlnet.ora but that made no difference.
Before we bite the bullet and rewrite the reporting automation to use jdbc does
anyone have suggestions for anything else to try?
Database version is 11.2.0.3
Thanks!
Jay Miller
Sr. Oracle DBA
