Open cursors

[Steve Morrell]

Not sure if this is more a .Net question or an Oracle question but
hey...

I have an OracleConnection object in C# that I'm passing around a lot
of other objects in sequence. This way one connection is used for all
objects and its basically saying "perform your job on this
connection". However, despite the fact that I'm closing the connection
when eahc object is finished with it, the cursors which it opens in
the database seem to stay around for quite some time, only
disappearing when I shut the application down. How can I ensure that i
don't get to the stage that the open_cursors variable is exceeded? Is
there a way of saying ordering a connection to close all cursors
associated with what it just did?

Ta,
SSM

[Jim Kennedy]

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Not sure if this is more a .Net question or an Oracle question but
hey...

I have an OracleConnection object in C# that I'm passing around a lot
of other objects in sequence. This way one connection is used for all
objects and its basically saying "perform your job on this
connection". However, despite the fact that I'm closing the connection
when eahc object is finished with it, the cursors which it opens in
the database seem to stay around for quite some time, only
disappearing when I shut the application down. How can I ensure that i
don't get to the stage that the open_cursors variable is exceeded? Is
there a way of saying ordering a connection to close all cursors
associated with what it just did?

Ta,
SSM

Not familiar with C#. Why one would close the connection once each object
is done is a mystery to me. Unless there is some sort of connection pooling
then you are building up and tearing down a connection (an expansive thing
to do) all the time. If you are connection pooling then that is a different
matter. It sounds like your application is leaking cursors. The easy way
is to close each cursor when you are done. The better way is to not open the
cursor if it is already open and just reuse it. (See Oracle's application
developer's Guide)

Jim