With Oracle 11g OCI clients can store result sets on the client. I was wondering how ODP.NET will use this feature and if there are any coding constraints. Required setup: The feature must be enabled server side by setting the init.ora parameter client_result_cache_size (restart required) to the amout...

A few month ago I compared the .NET query notification possibilites between SQL Server and Oracle. At that time Oracle could only dectect changes at table level; not at row level. With the new release of ODP.NET 11.1 and Oracle 11g Oracle enhances the Query Notification support. Change detection can...

Lately I had a question in this Blog about an ORA-25408. My first thought was, that TAF and HA events should not be mixed. In order to confirm this, I wrote a small application with 3 connection possibilites 1. Normal connection 2. TAF connection with or without HA events 3. Connection with HA events...

SQL Server also offers an "array insert" possibility via .NET, which is called bulk copy . I wrote a similiar application as with the Oracle ODP.NET array insert. The point was not to compare Oracle vs. SQL Server, but to verify if the bulk copy is really faster than a normal insert via the...

ODP.NET supports array insert in two ways: 1. Binding arrays using ArrayBindCount cmd.Parameters.Add("firstname", OracleDbType.Varchar2, firstNames, ParameterDirection.Input); where firstNames is string[] 2. Binding to PL/SQL associative Arrays OracleParameter pFirstname = new OracleParameter...

After the successfull RLB tests with RAC FAN events we re-tested the FCF with both Java and ODP.NET Startup As soon as the DBA puts an additional instance into a RAC service the client receives a FAN / FCF event. Both Java and .NET use the additional ...read more

My last RAC tests with runtime load balancing and .NET were not successful. ODP.NET always distributed the workload in a round robin manner. Now I know why: It is a AQ bug. I had more than one IP address defined (my real one and one for my vmWare). Since ...read more