About Connection Pools for Initialization Blocks

It is recommended that you create a dedicated connection pool for initialization blocks. This connection pool should not be used for queries.

Additionally, it is recommended that you isolate the connections pools for different types of initialization blocks. This also makes sure that authentication and login-specific initialization blocks do not slow down the login process. The following types should have separate connection pools:

• All Authentication and login-specific initialization blocks such as language, externalized strings, and group assignments.
• All initialization blocks that set session variables.
• All initialization blocks that set repository variables. These initialization blocks should always be run using the system Administrator user login.
  Be aware of the number of these initialization blocks, their scheduled refresh rate, and when they are scheduled to run. Typically, it would take an extreme case for this scenario to affect resources. For example, refresh rates set in minutes, greater than 15 initialization blocks that refresh concurrently, and a situation in which either of these scenarios could occur during prime user access time frames. To avoid straining the available resources, you might want to disable query logging for the default Oracle BI Administrator.

Initialization blocks should be designed so that the maximum number of Oracle BI Server variables may be assigned by each block. For example, if you have five variables, it is more efficient and less resource intensive to construct a single initialization block containing all five variables. When using one initialization block, the values will be resolved with one call to the back end tables using the initialization string. Constructing five initialization blocks, one for each variable, would result in five calls to the back end tables for assignment.

Setting Up General Properties