Oracle-L: RE: Explain THIS plan. SOLVED

From: Kirsch, Walter J (Northrop Grumman) <walter.kirsch-eds_at_eds.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 14:16:52 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00460896.20020514141652@fatcity.com>

select /*+ rule */ ...

cut the execution time to nil.

Thanks to Charlie Mengler for help and Tim Gorman for a note in his "i.sql" that solved the problem.

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2-cpu, 220mhz, 32-bit HPUX 11.0. Oracle 8.1.7.0.0

Could someone explain what's going on here?

This SQL takes no time at all :

	select
	  substr(username , 1, 12)  "User"
	, substr(lock_type, 1, 18)  "Lock Type"
	, substr(mode_held, 1, 18)  "Mode Held"
	  from sys.dba_lock a
	     , v$session    b
	 where /*lock_type not in ('Media Recovery','Redo Thread')
	   and*/ a.session_id = b.sid;

with explain plan:

	SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=70 Card=1 Bytes=148)
	  NESTED LOOPS (Cost=70 Card=1 Bytes=148)
	    NESTED LOOPS (Cost=60 Card=1 Bytes=141)
	      NESTED LOOPS (Cost=20 Card=1 Bytes=107)
	        FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KSUSE (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=30)
	        FIXED TABLE (FIXED INDEX #1) OF X$KSUSE (Cost=10 Card=1
Bytes=77)
	      VIEW OF GV$_LOCK
	        UNION-ALL
	          VIEW OF GV$_LOCK1 (Cost=20 Card=2 Bytes=162)
	            UNION-ALL
	              FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KDNSSF (Cost=10 Card=1
Bytes=94)
	              FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KSQEQ (Cost=10 Card=1
Bytes=94)
	          FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KTADM (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=94)
	          FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KTCXB (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=94)
	    FIXED TABLE (FIXED INDEX #1) OF X$KSQRS (Cost=10 Card=100

Bytes=700)

whereas an uncommented predicate consumes 40 minutes of CPU (sez TOP) with this explain plan:

	SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=70 Card=1 Bytes=148)
	  NESTED LOOPS (Cost=70 Card=1 Bytes=148)
	    NESTED LOOPS (Cost=30 Card=1 Bytes=114)
	      MERGE JOIN (CARTESIAN) (Cost=20 Card=1 Bytes=37)
	        FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KSUSE (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=30)
	        SORT (JOIN) (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=7)
	          FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KSQRS (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=7)
	      FIXED TABLE (FIXED INDEX #1) OF X$KSUSE (Cost=10 Card=1
Bytes=77)
	    VIEW OF GV$_LOCK
	      UNION-ALL
	        VIEW OF GV$_LOCK1 (Cost=20 Card=2 Bytes=162)
	          UNION-ALL
	            FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KDNSSF (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=94)
	            FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KSQEQ (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=94)
	        FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KTADM (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=94)
	        FIXED TABLE (FULL) OF X$KTCXB (Cost=10 Card=1 Bytes=94)

If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. --John F Duval

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