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-----Original Message----- From: John Scoles [mailto:sco...@pythian.com] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 10:07 AM To: Carlson, John W. Cc: Matthew Maglinte; dbi-users@perl.org; tim.bu...@pobox.com Subject: Re: dbd::oracle behavior I would say use 1.24 or the trunk version http://*theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/authors/id/P/PY/PYTHIAN/DBD-Oracle-1.24.tar.gz there may be a problem with that file so you might want to try here as well http://*svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk There is some new majik in 1.24 that will speed up any queries you do by a few orders of magnitude ;). cheers John Scoles > I was using DBD::Oracle 1.20 in development, and DBD::Oracle 1.21 in > integration, test and production. So far we have only deployed DBD::Oracle > to development. Would you recommend to install something else for > integration, test and production? > > We had DBI 1.602 in development, and we were having trouble installing > DBD::Oracle 1.23, so we upgraded to DBI 1.609 and that seemed to fix the > problem. > > What DBI and DBD::Oracle do you recommend for production use? > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Scoles [mailto:sco...@pythian.com] > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:52 AM > To: Carlson, John W. > Cc: Matthew Maglinte; dbi-users@perl.org; tim.bu...@pobox.com > Subject: Re: dbd::oracle behavior > > should be no problem then what was the original version of DBD:Oracle > and DBI where you using?? > >> So far, I am read only! >> >> Thanks, >> >> John >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Scoles [mailto:sco...@pythian.com] >> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:31 AM >> To: Carlson, John W. >> Cc: Matthew Maglinte; dbi-users@perl.org; tim.bu...@pobox.com >> Subject: Re: dbd::oracle behavior >> >> The bug in 1.23 will hit you if you try to an insert more than one CLOB >> at a time. >> If you are not inserting CLOBs then do not worry about it. >> >> Cheers >> John Scoles >> >> >> Carlson, John W. wrote: >> >> >>> Uh. I just installed DBD::Oracle 1.23 with a patch. Should I install >>> DBD::Oracle 1.22 instead? What I the nature of the bug? >>> I am fairly new to the dbi-users group, and I haven't been watching the >>> emails. >>> >>> John >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: John Scoles [mailto:sco...@pythian.com] >>> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 5:07 AM >>> To: Matthew Maglinte >>> Cc: dbi-users@perl.org; tim.bu...@pobox.com >>> Subject: Re: dbd::oracle behavior >>> >>> Hard to say what is going on here but me things you are running into the >>> 'ping' problem >>> >>> Are you using Apache::DBI?? >>> >>> Many of these warehouse applictions reuse the same connection handel and >>> to keep them alive they use $dbh->ping which runs a query to maintain >>> the connection. >>> >>> What version of DBD::Oracle are you using? >>> >>> If you can upgrade to DBD::Oracle 1.22 (do not use 1.23 there is a bug >>> in there that might be worse) or get the latest 1.24 version >>> >>> that might solve your problem >>> >>> cheers >>> John Scoles >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Matthew Maglinte wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I'm a dba supporting a warehouse database (production environment) >>>> accessed via a custom application built on open source components, one of >>>> which is dbd::oracle. >>>> >>>> Performance monitoring shows two queries continually consuming >>>> considerable resources (cpu waits) - the query text resembling for the >>>> most part 'column_info' and 'table_info'. Over any given day, the >>>> column_info select is executed +260 times an hour, 'table_info' executed >>>> +360 times an hour. >>>> >>>> Is this level of frequency intended? And are these calls appropriate >>>> (expected) for a static data dictionary environment? >>>> >>>> Any response that would help my understanding would be appreciated. >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Matt Maglinte >>>> DBA - PeMS/LCS >>>> Department of Transportation >>>> W:(916)445-0090 >>>> matthew_magli...@dot.ca.gov >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
