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then a temporary table is created in the buffer pool and sort will be divided in
several pieces, which is more time consuming. So try to avoid sorts that do not fit
into the sort heap. The application developer has to verify if the sort is really
necessary or if he can perform the search query without a order by clause. The
DBA should monitor if the sort heap is big enough and if not he needs to increase
the heap size when a better performance is necessary and more memory is
available.
Be careful when increasing the sort heap. Because the heap is part of the agent
memory, for each connection the space is allocated and that multiples the
memory required by the number of agents.
To find out if ...
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