Hello all, Would anyone care to give me some feedback/pointers on improving the ratio of # of parses to # of executions? Background: Oracle 9i (9.2.0.6). Using STATSPACK, YAPP. Session_cached_cursors set to 500. Open_cusrsors set to 1000. Cursor_sharing set to SIMILAR. Serial_reuse = DSIABLE. Cursor_space_for_time = FALSE. Shared_pool size is 320MB, much larger that I need right now, but will need all of it (perhaps more than I can get at) once load/stress testing begins next month. Same deal with buffer_cache. Reason for question: trying to get as much performance tuning done before the application and its database are exposed to a much greater stress. For many of the application's SQL, I see a 1-to-1 relationship between parses and executions (3 examples below). Now, I know I should, for best performance, parse once and execute many times. I've reviewed the documentation on how to reduce the parses, but as I see bind variables being used, I am unsure as to where to go from here, esp. what to tell the application people. Note: When cursor_sharing was set to EXACT, I got worse performance that I am getting now. SQL_TEXT P_CALLS SHAR_MEM PERS_MEM LOAD_VER OPEN_VER FETCHES EXECUTIONS LOADS INVALS CPU_TIME LAST_LOAD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- ------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------------------- SELECT VERSION FROM LICENSE WHERE KEY_C 10702 8873 620 1 1 10702 10702 1 0 1125000 2005-10-18/09:48:25 ODE = :WHERE_KEY AND PROF_NAME = :WHERE_ PROF SELECT VERSION FROM GROUPS_VERSIONS WHE 3277 8260 620 1 1 3277 3277 1 0 218750 2005-10-18/09:48:25 RE KEY_NUM = :WHERE_KEY AND PROF_NAME = :WHERE_PROF SELECT VERSION FROM PROCESSES_DEFINITIO 1816 8539 620 1 1 1816 1816 1 0 78125 2005-10-18/09:48:26 NS WHERE KEY_CODE = :WHERE_KEY AND PROF_ NAME = :WHERE_PROF Below, you can see that the Execute to Parse ratio is ridiculously low. Instance Efficiency Percentages (Target 100%) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Buffer Nowait %: 100.00 Redo NoWait %: 100.00 Buffer Hit %: 99.90 In-memory Sort %: 100.00 Library Hit %: 99.47 Soft Parse %: 99.90 Execute to Parse %: 3.15 Latch Hit %: 100.00 Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %: 102.00 % Non-Parse CPU: 96.21 Any help/assistance would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Paul ------------------------------ Paul R. Sherman Database Administrator Turbine Inc. 60 Glacier Drive, Suite 4000 Westwood, Ma. 02090 Phone (781) 407-4139 Fax (781) 329-5463 psherman@xxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------