Simulate Multiple users connecting to same session

Question

Hi All,
Is there anyway we can simulate multiple users connecting to the same session in oracle using PL/SQL.
Thanks,
MK.

Answer 1

As per the architects in our company, lots of users connect to the same session and access the database.Exactly what does this mean? A single session can service one user at a time. I would wager that the architects are envisioning (or describing) a connection pooling setup where the middle tier server maintains a relatively small number of connections to the database (each with its own session most likely) and users operate by getting a connection from the pool, making a request, and returning the connection back to the pool. At any given point, only one user can be using a connection.
If that's the case, you would simulate this by simply executing code in a loop in PL/SQL.
Of course, if this is the case, each connection in the connection pool would its own copy of the collection and so each connection would get its own list of order numbers. You'd have to develop some way to ensure that each session populated its collection with a different set of order numbers.
Justin