ASA Database Administration Guide
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PREFETCH option [database]

Function 

The PREFETCH option acts as a toggle allowing you to turn fetching on and off.

Allowed values 

ON, OFF

Scope 

Can be set for an individual connection or for the PUBLIC group. Takes effect immediately.

Default 

ON

Description 

This option controls whether rows are fetched to the client side in advance of being made available to the client application. Fetching a number of rows at a time, even when the client application requests rows one at a time (for example, when looping over the rows of a cursor) cuts down on response time and improves overall throughput by cutting down the number of requests to the database.

The setting of PREFETCH is ignored by Open Client and JDBC connections.

For more information, see Prefetching rows and DisableMultiRowFetch connection parameter [DMRF].