It might be held in the cursor cache, it may even be held in session cursors cache but it will not be counted as an open cursor. My suggestion had diagnostic purpose only. The problem is, probably, with the tool which explicitly closes cursors too frequently and insufficiently sized shared pool which throws cursors out soon after they're closed.
On 12/11/2003 04:54:25 AM, Jonathan Lewis wrote: > > That won't help, as the cursor would still > be held open in the pl/sql cursor cache - > despite the explicit close. > > It's also more efficient to use the implicit > cursor in pl/sql for a single row fetch in > the user's version of Oracle. > > > Regards > > Jonathan Lewis > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk > > The educated person is not the person > who can answer the questions, but the > person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr > > > One-day tutorials: > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html > > > Three-day seminar: > see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html > ____UK___November > > > The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html > > > ----- Original Message ----- > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:39 PM > > > > What tool are you using? HAve you considered putting select from the > > sequence in an explicit cursor, open it, fetch it and close it again? > > What Have in mind is something like this: > > > > declare > > cursor csr is > > select sai.nextval from dual; > > num integer :=0; > > ind integer :=10; > > begin > > while (ind>=0) loop > > open csr; > > fetch csr into num; > > close csr; > > dbms_output.put_line('Sai is:'||num); > > ind:=ind-1; > > end loop; > > end; > > / > > > > > > Here is the output: > > > > QL> / > > Sai is:13 > > Sai is:14 > > Sai is:15 > > Sai is:16 > > Sai is:17 > > Sai is:18 > > Sai is:19 > > Sai is:20 > > Sai is:21 > > Sai is:22 > > Sai is:23 > > > > PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Jonathan Lewis > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Note: This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Wang Trading LLC and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mladen Gogala INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
