Why Pinning? Apps needs more space in SGA for packages and functions.

If SGA is fragmented some of them may not get enough free space. IF a package doesn't get contiguous free memory , Database will try to free the memory by deleting some objects using LRU algorithm.. Even then, if it unable to get enough memory , then ORA-04031 error is thrown. Set SGA_TARGET parameter to use Automatic shared Memory Management-----this resolves the error to some extent... So. Pinning objects into shared pool increases database performance to a great extent. This is because , these pinned objects need not be loaded and parsed from database.as they reside in the SQL and PL/SQL area of SGA. NOTE : Care has to be taken while choosing which objects have to be pinned. Generally, large and frequently used packages are pinned.whereas pinning Unnecessary or rarely used objects may degrade the DB performance. To identify the objects to be pinned, we need to know which objects are executed more frequently. This is done by running the script below which creates a ADXCKPIN.lst file---------which is the list of objects in the shared pool. $sqlplus system/password@AD_TOP/sql/ADXCKPIN.sql Or Simply---select owner,name,type,sharable_mem from v$db_object_cache where kept='YES'; And then do SQL> select * from x$ksmlru; Gives current shared pool objects and the corresponding number of objects flushed out of the shared pool to allocate space. Once you query the table, the database will reset the table.

How to pin?

Run the scripts ADXGNPIN.sql for packages and functions and ADXGNPNS.sql for sequences $sqlplus sys/password@AD_TOP/sql/ADXGNPIN.sql APPS

This, by default, pins all objects under Apps Schema.so it is good to edit the script and pin the
objects chosen. Manually-----This can be done by executing a script.. SQL> exec dbms_shared_pool.keep('schema.object');

Some of the packages in SYS schema which are most used in Apps environment.
DBMS_STANDARD DBMS_UTILITY DBMS_DESCRIBE DBMS_OUTPUT STANDARD DBMS_ALERT DBMS_DDL DBMS_LOCK DBMS_SESSION DBMS_SHARED_POOL