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Bulk Collect Operations Performance Optimization in PLSQL

Bulk collect operations can improve performance over traditional row-by-row cursor processing in PL/SQL. Bulk collect fetches an entire cursor result set into a collection in one operation, avoiding multiple context switches between SQL and PL/SQL. The document provides an example of using bulk collect to fetch employee data into a collection and then looping through the collection to process each row, compared to fetching each row individually from the cursor. Performance can be measured by timing each approach. The comments discuss using DBMS_SCHEDULER to schedule stored procedures and passing collections through refcursors.

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Bulk Collect Operations Performance Optimization in PLSQL

Bulk collect operations can improve performance over traditional row-by-row cursor processing in PL/SQL. Bulk collect fetches an entire cursor result set into a collection in one operation, avoiding multiple context switches between SQL and PL/SQL. The document provides an example of using bulk collect to fetch employee data into a collection and then looping through the collection to process each row, compared to fetching each row individually from the cursor. Performance can be measured by timing each approach. The comments discuss using DBMS_SCHEDULER to schedule stored procedures and passing collections through refcursors.

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Thursday, 01 May 2008 10:55

Anshuman Ghosh

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This post is relevant in context of bulk operations we do in PLSQL (mostly as part of


processes or batch jobs. A practical example is, having a cursor which returns a BIG
collection of data, which then has to be processed row by row.

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Without using Bulk Collect
The slow (read inefficient) way to do it is to read the cursor row by
row, and process the data.

ExampleDECLARE
my_sal emp.sal%TYPE;
CURSOR c1 IS SELECT sal FROM emp WHERE job = my_job;
BEGIN
...

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OPEN c1;
LOOP
FETCH c1 INTO my_sal;
EXIT WHEN c1%NOTFOUND;
bonus := sal * 0.15;
... further processing (business logic)
...
...
END LOOP;
END;

Using Bulk Collect


When using bulk collect, the complete cursor data is fetched into a collection in 1 shot,
thereby saving of multiple reads from cursor (and the associated overhead time
consumed in context switching between SQL fetches and PLSQL program process).
ExamplePROCEDURE process_all_rows
IS
TYPE employees_collection
IS TABLE OF employees%ROWTYPE
INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
l_employees employees_collection;
BEGIN
SELECT *
BULK COLLECT INTO l_employees
FROM employees;
FOR indx IN 1 .. l_employees.COUNT
LOOP
my_function_call(l_employees(indx));
END LOOP;
END process_all_rows;

Performance metrics
If you wish to have real time metrics of advantages of using bulk_collect, we can do so
by timing the processes - once using normal cursor operation and once using bulk
collect.

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How to schedule a stored procedure using dbms_scheduler (frequency 3


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written by Kallepalli Sridhar , May 04, 2008

Hi Anil
Can you please guide me how to use DBMS_SCHEDULER for a stored
procedure where the frquency for the program should be for every three min.
Regards
Sridhar
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written by nani , May 26, 2008

Hi ghosh,
Thanks a lot for guidence on bulk collect
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THANKS
written by needhelp , May 30, 2008

Nice explaination regarding BULK COLLECTION. I want some tips regarding


how to write query in distributed database..? how many main drawbacks
should be keep in mind when writing query.? Because due to it sometime
query takes so much time to fetch single record even.
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returing plsqltable as refcursor


written by venki , June 03, 2008

how an plsql table can be used in select and i want to send it as trhrough
refcursor as out parameter can u explain it
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written by Anshuman Ghosh , June 03, 2008

Venki,
In the bulk collect example given above, "l_employees" is indeed a pl/sql table.
TYPE employees_collection IS TABLE OF employees&#xRO;WTYPE INDEX
BY PLS_INTEGER;
l_employees employees_collection;
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SELECT * BULK COLLECT INTO l_employees FROM employees;


I shall post a new article on usage of refcursors..
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