Comments on: Oracle ReadTimeout – A Really Useful Oracle Driver Property http://www.techper.net/2008/01/28/oracle-readtimeout-a-really-useful-oracle-driver-property/ About Technology in My Life Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Odi http://www.techper.net/2008/01/28/oracle-readtimeout-a-really-useful-oracle-driver-property/comment-page-1/#comment-47825 Odi Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:35:10 +0000 http://www.techper.net/2008/01/28/oracle-readtimeout-a-really-useful-oracle-driver-property/#comment-47825 There is a possible catch here: if you execute a lengthy query, the timeout kills off the connection before the query can finish. I suggest to use query timeouts instead (of course you can't without access to the plugin code). This way you can set the expected time per query. And for calls that are not queries (like commit, rollback etc.) you can call Connection.isValid() (as of jdk 6) before executing them. There is a possible catch here: if you execute a lengthy query, the timeout kills off the connection before the query can finish.

I suggest to use query timeouts instead (of course you can’t without access to the plugin code). This way you can set the expected time per query. And for calls that are not queries (like commit, rollback etc.) you can call Connection.isValid() (as of jdk 6) before executing them.

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