you got a link for bjorn ensig's article. I did a search and cant find it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: RE: RE: parse/execute ratio > Ryan, > > This gets a bit hairy. I'll do my best, let me know if I lose you. (Others let me know if I put my foot in my mouth.) > > There are more than just soft and hard parses. First, if you have a brand new, totally unique SQL, that's definitely going to be a hard parse. > Once that's done, there are degrees of soft parses. First, perhaps the text of the SQL matches exactly, but it's submitted by a different user, > and so resolves to different objects. That's a different type of parse. Then, there are cases where the text matches, and everything resolves > to the same objects. If that keeps happening, you'll start getting session cursor cache hits. > > So, without getting into all the ugly details (which I'm not entirely sure I could totally elucidate without more digging and reading anyhow), > that's a bit of an oversimplification of how it can work in some cases. There are some good sources around for more detail, such as Steve Adams' book, > Bjorn Engsig's cursor sharing paper on OTN, etc. > > However, to answer your question: You can't absolutely definitively tell. Consider that V$SQL is at the child cursor level. So, AT MOST one of the > PARSE_CALLS was a full hard parse. The rest must have been some sort of hard parse. In fact, if the child_number = 0, then the very first parse was hard, > all others will some variant of soft parse. If child_number > 0, then the SQL was already there, so all parses attributed to this child must be some form > of soft parse. > > Hope that helps, > > -Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bobak, Mark [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of > ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:17 AM > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: RE: parse/execute ratio > > > ok you lost me. soft parses get listed as parse_calls. How do we find out if there is only a soft parse and no hard parse? > > > > From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: 2004/03/02 Tue AM 09:12:52 EST > > To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: RE: parse/execute ratio > > > > Yes, that would be the ideal situation. > > > > But, don't forget, lots of apps will do one parse per execute. > > They will be soft parses, and perhaps even session cache cursor hits, > > but they still get counted as parses (or PARSE_CALLS). > > > > I'd say any child cursors whose EXECUTIONS is >1 and increasing is being > > reused. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > -Mark > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx [mailto:ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tue 3/2/2004 8:59 AM > > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Cc: > > Subject: parse/execute ratio > > To see if a query is being reused i can go to v$sql and look at parse_calls to executions right? parse_calls should be low and executions high? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > > -- > > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------