> -----Original Message----- > From: John Scoles > More likely SQLplus is spawning a thread while DBD::Oracle does not.
You mean performing the actual work in the background while making the prompt available for the user to enter the next command? Oracle's sqlplus doesn't appear to have a -verbose switch, but maybe there is an option you can set on the connection to find out what's going on inside. > > This still doesn't explain the difference between > DBD::Oracle and > > sqlplus. They must have had different execution plans > internally somehow. Michael
