Proc stops executing in Parallel?

Question

I have an Oracle procedure with parallel degree default specified. It works in parallel when called from SQLPlus, but not when called through ODP.Net.
Any ideas. The client is Oracle 10.2 and the ODP is 10.1.0.200.

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks - there was a discrepancy between the Oracle Client version and the ODP.NET version (i.e. 10.2 vs. 10.1) and they should match. Since you are using the 10.1 version of ODP.NET you would then be using the 10.1 version of the Oracle Client. Not that it is necessarily critical for this particular issue, but you never know...
When you execute the pl/sql via SQL*Plus do you just do something like:
begin
  my_pkg.my_proc;
end;
/That is essentially what ODP.NET will generate when you set the CommandType to StoredProcedure.
I did this simple test and it executes in parallel for me... is this similar to what you are doing?
In the database:
create table test (
  object_id   number,
  owner       varchar2(30),
  object_name varchar2(30),
  object_type varchar2(19)
insert into test
select
  object_id,
  owner,
  object_name,
  object_type
from
  all_objects
order by
  object_id;
commit;
create or replace procedure build_index as
begin
  execute immediate
  'create index test_idx on test(object_id) parallel';
end;
/C# code:
using System;
using System.Data;
using Oracle.DataAccess.Client;
namespace Miscellaneous
  class Program
    static void Main(string[] args)
      string constr = "user id=markwill;" +
                      "password=oracle;" +
                      "data source=orademo;" +
                      "enlist=false;" +
                      "pooling=false";
      OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection(constr);
      con.Open();
      OracleCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand();
      cmd.CommandText = "build_index";
      cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
      cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
      cmd.Dispose();
      con.Dispose();
}- Mark