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Pak Hajj App adds new features for pilgrims

Pak Hajj App now offers pilgrims greater control over their Hajj arrangements through several newly introduced digital services. The Ministry of Religious Affairs has added options that allow applicants to manage important package details from home. Pilgrims can now modify their package duration and make changes to their accommodation through the app. The updated system […]

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Bind Variables: The Hard-Parse Storm That Melts Your Shared Pool

The database is pinned at 90% CPU, the app team swears nothing changed, and AWR is topped by cursor: pin S wait on X and a parse-heavy profile. Nobody wrote a slow query.

  • Hard parse consumes shared pool memory and is time-consuming.
  • Bind variables prevent hard-parse storm by reusing parsed queries.
  • Use literals for infrequent, skewed data warehouse queries.

·dev.to

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