Cursor Issue

  • From: "Coleman, Kelley (HAC)" <Kelley.Coleman@xxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:42:50 -0700

I have a 3rd part app that collects message strings from various
external sites, turns each string into an Oracle insert statement, then
sends those inserts to my database.  It's been working well for a couple
of years, but as the number of messages is growing, I'm find that I have
a cursor problem.  I don't have the ability to change much about the 3rd
party app, so I'm focused right now on providing what I can on the db
side.  Is there a way to have a unique cursor setting for a user or
session? 

 

What I'm thinking is that, this process usually runs in the late evening
when there aren't many users on the system, but the 1800 cursor
limitation we have in the init.ora just doesn't seem to be enough.  Can
I up it just for this process? Or am I really forced to work with the
app tech support (and I use that term loosely) to figure out why it's
using so many cursors?  It's not even like the numbers are all that
huge.  I can't see why it would take so many cursors to process less
than 1,000 records.

 

Any thoughts?

Kelley Coleman
Database Administrator
VA Health Administration Center
Denver, Colorado
303-331-7521-o


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