当Oracle运行PL/SQL时会使用两套引擎,所有procedural code由PL/SQL engine 完成,所有SQL由SQL engine处理。所以如果Oracle从一个collection中循环执行相同的DML操作,那么为了避免两套engine切换所消耗的系统资源,可以使用bulk binds来把所有的DML操作binding到一次操作中完成。这将极大提高PL/SQL的执行效率。
以下是简单的测试,用两种方式插入100000条数据,可以看到效率提高了7倍左右。
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SQL> CREATE TABLE test1(
2 id NUMBER(10),
3 description VARCHAR2(50));

Table created

SQL> ALTER TABLE test1 ADD (
2 CONSTRAINT test1_pk PRIMARY KEY (id));

Table altered

SQL> SET TIMING ON;

SQL> DECLARE
2 TYPE id_type IS TABLE OF test1.id%TYPE;
3 TYPE description_type IS TABLE OF test1.description%TYPE;
4
5 t_id id_type := id_type();
6 t_description description_type := description_type();
7 BEGIN
8 FOR i IN 1 .. 100000 LOOP
9 t_id.extend;
10 t_description.extend;
11
12 t_id(t_id.last) := i;
13 t_description(t_description.last) := 'Description: ' || To_Char(i);
14 END LOOP;
15
16 FOR i IN t_id.first .. t_id.last LOOP
17 INSERT INTO test1 (id, description)
18 VALUES (t_id(i), t_description(i));
19 END LOOP;
20
21 COMMIT;
22 END;
23 /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed

Executed in 141.233 seconds

SQL> truncate table test1;

Table truncated

Executed in 0.631 seconds

SQL>
SQL> DECLARE
2 TYPE id_type IS TABLE OF test1.id%TYPE;
3 TYPE description_type IS TABLE OF test1.description%TYPE;
4
5 t_id id_type := id_type();
6 t_description description_type := description_type();
7 BEGIN
8 FOR i IN 1 .. 100000 LOOP
9 t_id.extend;
10 t_description.extend;
11
12 t_id(t_id.last) := i;
13 t_description(t_description.last) := 'Description: ' || To_Char(i);
14 END LOOP;
15
16 FORALL i IN t_id.first .. t_id.last
17 INSERT INTO test1 (id, description)
18 VALUES (t_id(i), t_description(i));
19
20 COMMIT;
21 END;
22 /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed

Executed in 27.52 seconds

SQL> select count(*) from test1;

COUNT(*)
----------
100000

Executed in 0.04 seconds

















































































