June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
12h 39m
English
In Chapter 1, “PL/SQL Concepts,” you learned that the PL/SQL engine sends SQL statements to the SQL engine, which then returns results back to the PL/SQL engine. The communication between the PL/SQL and SQL engines is also known as a context switch. A certain performance overhead is associated with these context switches. However, the PL/SQL language has a number of features that can minimize the performance overhead; they are collectively known as bulk SQL. Generally, if a SQL statement affects four or more rows, bulk SQL may improve performance significantly. Bulk SQL supports batch processing of SQL statements ...
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