arraysize

Need to get a bunch from rows out of the database? Most people are aware of the ARRAYSIZE parameter to improve the fetch performance back to the client, but many people are not aware of the newer ROWPREFETCH parameter.

Let’s take a look at each to see how quickly we can drag data back to our SQL Plus client. I’ll start with table called TX which is approximately 1500MB in size, and has just over 10millions.

First let’s look at the benefits you get from ramping up ARRAYSIZE. I’ll start with the default size of 15, and quickly you’ll see why that is not a good starting point if you are fetching lots of rows. (Important emphasis on the “if” there)