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Memory Leak Loading and Unloading Oracle ODBC Driver (Doc ID 1256944.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 05, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle ODBC Driver - Version 9.2.0.1.0 to 11.2.0.1
Microsoft Windows (32-bit)

Symptoms

Applications that repeatedly load and unload the Oracle ODBC driver (sqora32.dll) may experience a memory leak.  

This condition can be much more obvious in applications that do not take advantage of connection pooling, and instead open a hard connection every time.

Cause

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