The processes going on as mentioned in post “Saving XML data directly to disk” got me thinking so I started testing. Why did the processes take 100% CPU time…? To be honest I still don’t know for sure (I suspect the assembling of the XML instance), because I am unsure if I didn’t mix up apples with oranges after all. I suspect there is maybe still an NLS conversion thing going on. I found the whole exercise interesting, also because it gave me a little bit more insight in the internals.
Follow me on my tracing adventure.