Or: “Why we should be happy about Adaptive Cursor Sharing” Premier Support for 10g R2 ended in July 2010, and Extended Support will end in July 2013, 11gR2 is widely used, and 12c is on the horizon. Maybe it’s time for writing a kind of obituary for my first Oracle love, and to spread a […]
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Oracle 11.2: Cursor Mutex S wait event and too many (2^30) child cursors
Once again, there was a lesson to be learned about the Oracle RDBMS. The occaison was a direct upgrade from Enterprise Edition 10gR2 to EE 11gR2, the application was kept untouched for good reason. Problem After running the new version for two hours, everything became incredibly slow, and the CPU load on the DB server […]
Oracle 11g Adaptive Cursor Sharing does not work with PL/SQL?
Recently, there was trouble in the air. I migrated a database into 11g to enjoy adaptive cursor sharing, but it did not adapt cursors. In the trouble shooting process, I discovered the following: Bug 8357294: ADAPTIVE CURSOR SHARING DOESN’T WORK FOR SQL FROM PL/SQL Nice one. A short quotation from the bug text: PL/SQL has […]