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Optimising Oracle 9i for million-record JDBC read-only access

Howie Goodell
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#1: Jul 19 '05
Hello --

I am trying to optimise a JDBC connection and an Oracle 9i database
for reading millions of records at a time to a 1 Gig PC running Win2K
or XP. Two questions:

1. Does anyone have suggestions for optimising an Oracle 9i server
(Enterprise Edition, Release 2) for networked read-only JDBC access
with large return sets? With default settings MySQL reads 1M records
2.5 times faster than Oracle even on its first, non-cached execution.

2. Unrelated question: is there a way to read a text field via JDBC
without creating a String object? The memory and GC overheads of
creating millions of objects are becoming a problem, too.

Thanks much!
Howie Goodell
Jim Kennedy
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#2: Jul 19 '05

re: Optimising Oracle 9i for million-record JDBC read-only access



"Howie Goodell" <howie.goodell@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:20bf32b7.0407131149.4e164369@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> Hello --
>
> I am trying to optimise a JDBC connection and an Oracle 9i database
> for reading millions of records at a time to a 1 Gig PC running Win2K
> or XP. Two questions:
>
> 1. Does anyone have suggestions for optimising an Oracle 9i server
> (Enterprise Edition, Release 2) for networked read-only JDBC access
> with large return sets? With default settings MySQL reads 1M records
> 2.5 times faster than Oracle even on its first, non-cached execution.
>
> 2. Unrelated question: is there a way to read a text field via JDBC
> without creating a String object? The memory and GC overheads of
> creating millions of objects are becoming a problem, too.
>
> Thanks much!
> Howie Goodell[/color]
Try increasing the array fetch or batch fetch to like 100 or so. Also use
prepared statements and reexecute. You can use the oci driver and it should
be faster.
Jim


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