Oracle Performance Firefighting
by Craig Shallahamer

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What I like so much about this story is that the DBAs understood the problem and took their analysis to the next level. After demanding that the vendor make the change and being turned down, most DBAs would just start complaining and whining. The problem might never be resolved, forcing a system with much more CPU power to be purchased.

Another way to quickly implement bind variable usage is to have Oracle automatically transform the SQL. Oracle will effectively take non-bind variable SQL and transform it into bind variable SQL.2 Suppose you notice a SQL statement like the one shown here.

If you know your application SQL well, you may be aware that this exact SQL does not actually exist anywhere in the application. In fact, if you checked the SQL the application submits to Oracle, it may look like this:

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