最近遇見一個ORA-01795: maximum number of eXPRessions in a list is 1000 錯誤,才知道In-list有1000個元素的限制;可以使用array bind或者temporary table解決,而且還能綁定變量。[Limit and conversion very long IN list : WHERE x IN ( ,,, ...) ]                                                                                                再想到SQL的長度是否在SQLPLUS里面還有其他的限制?    Logical Database Limits    SQL Statement Length
     Maximum length of statements
     64 K maximum; particular tools may impose lower limits    9i的文檔寫的最大64K,其實不正確。    在10g的文檔中作了修改 Logical Database Limits    The limit on how long a SQL statement can be depends on many factors, including database configuration, disk space, and memory    仔細想想,我們數據庫中 package 幾十K有很多,當初都是用sqlplus執行創建的;sqlpplus對日常執行的SQL因該不會有長度限制。    先測試一下使用DBMS_SQL執行很長的SQL語句。    SQL> declare
    2 l_stmt dbms_sql.varchar2s;
    l_cursor integer default dbms_sql.open_cursor;
    l_rows number default 0;
    3 4 5 l_length number := 0;
    6 begin
    7 l_stmt(1) := 'select 1 c1';
    8 for i in 2 .. 15000
    9 loop
    10 l_stmt(i) := ', 1 c'  i;
    11 end loop;
    12 l_stmt(15000) := 'from dual';
    13 for i in l_stmt.first .. l_stmt.last
    14 loop
    15 l_length := l_length + length(l_stmt(i));
    16 end loop;
    17 dbms_output.put_line( 'length = '  l_length );
    18 dbms_sql.parse( c => l_cursor,
    19 statement => l_stmt,
    20 lb => l_stmt.first,
    21 ub => l_stmt.last,
    22 lfflg => TRUE,
    23 language_flag => dbms_sql.native );
    25 l_rows := dbms_sql.execute(l_cursor);
    26 dbms_sql.close_cursor( l_cursor );
    27 end;
    28 /
    length = 138898    PL/SQL procedure sUCcessfully completed.    通過dbms_sql.varchar2s數組,可以執行很長的SQL。    再將如上pl/sql產生的SQL使用dbms_output輸出longSQL.sql.    SQL> host ls -l longSQL.sql
    -rw-r--r-- 1 Oracle dba 1215082 Dec 4 05:19 longSQL.sql
                             SQL> host head longSQL.sql
    select 1 c1
    , 1 c2
    ...........................    SQL> host tail longSQL.sql
    ................
    , 1 c14999
    , 1 c15000
    from dual;    這個1M的SQL在sqlplus里完全可以執行。看來,oracle完全支持很長的SQL語句;但該sql會占用很多share pool空間,因此不提倡經常執行。    SQL> select sql_text, SHARABLE_MEM,PERSISTENT_MEM,RUNTIME_MEM from v$sql where sql_text like '%, 1 c2%';    SQL_TEXT
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    SHARABLE_MEM PERSISTENT_MEM RUNTIME_MEM
    ------------ -------------- -----------
    select 1 c1 , 1 c2 , 1 c3 , 1 c4 , 1 c5 , 1 c6 , 1 c7 , 1 c8 , 1 c9 , 1 c10 , 1
    c11 , 1 c12 , 1 c13 , 1 c14 , 1 c15 , 1 c16 , 1 c17 , 1 c18 , 1 c19 , 1 , 1 .............................................................................................
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