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RE: Oracle PL/SQL Native Compilation
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2008-09-18 17:45:30

Hi Paul,

The app that has me considering this option is one that is dealing with a lot of associative arrays.  I was curious to find out from the community if there were any potential issues with native compilation that weren't already covered in Oracle's documentation.

I am converting an app written in VB6 (that accesses Oracle) into code residing in the database.  Phase 1 is to get the functionality converted and working.  Phase 2 is to re-architect the application.  The VB code utilizes a lot of ADO recordsets which translate pretty well into either cursors or associative arrays.  Even after initial tuning things are a bit slow.  I'm thinking that the native compilation could help on the code that uses the arrays.  (I may also try to migrate the associative arrays to global temp tables as another option.)   It's been an interesting project...

Chris


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Chris,

Don't expect to see your app run faster.  This only helps if your time is being consumed by PL/SQL (actually a rather rare source of performance lag).

This will not help your SQL, files and DB IO, or network traffic.

If you think it might help, of course do not use it in development, only in final testing and prod.

Paul Dorsey
Dulcian, Inc.
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I just recently "discovered"; that it is possible to do native compilation of PL/SQL code instead of interpretted compilation.  Oracle's documentation suggests that there can be a 10%-30% performance increase by using native compilation.  The biggest drawback appears to be a lot slower compilation time (3x-5x?).  (It is also indicated that PL/SQL debug tools won't work with native compilations...but I'm not sure that is big issue here.)  I would be interested to find out what experiences people have had when either switching to native compilation or attempting to do so.  Is it worth the extra wait for compilations to complete?  Have there been other problems that arise?  Is having a mixture of native and interpretted code OK or is it better to go all the way?  Our environment is a 10g database running Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 Applications and quite a bit of custom code.

Thanks in advance for your input.
Chris

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