You are on the right track John. Basically there is no criteria that limits the number of rows
returned. Your query will return every row in the two tables. It is actually faster to do a full
tablescan than an index lookup if you are returning all the rows, so Oracle is doing the right
thing here.
HTH,
Steve Boyd
- John Barron <jbarron_at_windriver.com> wrote:
> how many rows in the tables?
>
> At 12:02 PM 4/26/00 -0800, Kevin Tsay wrote:
> >Hi listers:
> >
> >I've a simple parent-child relationship query:
> >
> >SELECT T.BUSINESS_UNIT_ID, T.TRANSFER_ID, T.TRANSFER_OCCURENCE_TYPE,
> >T.TRANSFER_TYPE, T.FROM_SITE_ID, T.TO_SITE_ID, TD.TRANSFER_DETAIL_ID,
> >TD.LINE_NO, TD.ITEM_QTY
> >FROM TRANSFERS T, TRANSFER_DETAILS TD
> >WHERE T.BUSINESS_UNIT_ID=TD.BUSINESS_UNIT_ID
> >AND T.TRANSFER_ID=TD.TRANSFER_ID
> >AND T.TRANSFER_OCCURENCE_TYPE=TD.TRANSFER_OCCURENCE_TYPE;
> >
> >Table TRANSFERS has PRIMARY KEY ( BUSINESS_UNIT_ID, TRANSFER_ID,
> >TRANSFER_OCCURENCE_TYPE )
> >Table TRANSFER_DETAILS has PRIMARY KEY ( BUSINESS_UNIT_ID, TRANSFER_ID,
> >TRANSFER_OCCURENCE_TYPE, TRANSFER_DETAIL_ID ) & referential constraint on
> >TRANSFERS
> >
> >and the explain plans are:
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=13605 Card=923364 Bytes=129270960)
> > MERGE JOIN (Cost=13605 Card=923364 Bytes=129270960)
> > SORT (JOIN)
> > TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF TRANSFERS (Cost=274 Card=126961 Bytes=9268153)
> > SORT (JOIN)
> > TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF TRANSFER_DETAILS (Cost=1524 Card=923363
> >Bytes=61865321)
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >My question is why the primary key index is not used ?
> >
> >ORACLE: 7.3.4.3 HP-UX
> >Both tables have been analyzed (compute)?
> >
> >Any insights ?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Kevin Tsay
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