Malformed SQL Text (PARSE ERROR) created by the JDBC driver may lead to ORA-904 or Performance Issue (Doc ID 2579487.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 09, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

A JDBC application using JDBC version 12.2.0.1(ojdbc8.jar) is is causing SQL statements containing a syntax error to be issued to the database.
The statements originate from the JDBC driver API calls rather than the application directly issuing bad statements.

example of bad SQL:  

But even though you may not see errors at the application level, this can lead to a performance isuse on the database side due to extensive parsing activity.

Changes

Cause

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