This method flushes the statement cache by closing all open cursors on the database, when statement caching is enabled.

Declaration

// C#
public void PurgeStatementCache();

Remarks

Flushing the statement cache repetitively results in decreased performance and may negate the performance benefit gained by enabling the statement cache.

Statement caching remains enabled after the call to PurgeStatementCache.

Invocation of this method purges the cached cursors that are associated with the OracleConnection. It does not purge all the cached cursors in the database.

Example

// C#
 
using System;
using System.Data;
using Oracle.DataAccess.Client; 
 
class PurgeStatementCacheSample
{
  static void Main()
  {
    string constr = "User Id=scott;Password=tiger;Data Source=oracle;" +
      "Statement Cache Size=20";
    OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection(constr);
    con.Open();
 
    OracleCommand cmd = new OracleCommand("select * from emp", con);
    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
    OracleDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
 
    // Purge Statement Cache
    con.PurgeStatementCache();
 
    // Close and Dispose OracleConnection object
    Console.WriteLine("Statement Cache Flushed");
    con.Close();
    con.Dispose();
  }
}