RE: Full table scan

Venu,

How may records? If it's just a few hundred, a full table scan might be faster. Throw a RULE hint at it and see what happens then. What version of Oracle? CBO in 7.3.4 wasn't all that smart.

Jerry Whittle
ASIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Venu Gopal Andem [SMTP:venu.andem_at_wipro.com]
>
> List,
>
> I have the following scnario:
>
> I'm doing a select from 2 tables joining them using a primary key- ref
> key on the tables and the explain plan is showing 2 full table scans...
> Even after analyzing the tables and the Optimizer mode is set to CHOOSE.
>
> SELECT a.col1, b.col2
> FROM table1 a, table2 b
> WHERE a.col1 = b.col1
>
> Any comments...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Venu

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