Oracle doesn't but Jonathan Lewis does, in his "Tutorials". I found out about that
from Scott Gosset in 8i internals class in NYC. Seems still to be true.
Gospel of Jonathan should suffice, however. I just discovered that my
10053 trace name errorstack forever, level 12 causes ORA-600 in 9.2. Let me look
for a patch and I'll come back later. As for the question being nontrivial and unfair,
I agree.
On 2004.01.06 14:29, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 1:59:26 PM, Mladen Gogala (mgogala_at_adelphia.net) wrote:
> MG> Nope. The answer is b). In the FIRST_ROWS mode, optimizer prefers NL to all other
> MG> methos despite the price.
>
> Does Oracle themselves *document* that what you say is the
> case? I believe you, but I'm not sure that Oracle documents
> what you just said, so short of looking at the code, I'm not
> sure how anyone could be expected to really *know* what the
> answer to the original question was, which makes me wonder
> if the question is really even a fair question to ask.
>
> Do we *know* that B is the case, or have we just always
> *observed* that it *happens to be* the case?
>
> Best regards,
>
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> MG> On 2004.01.06 13:44, Jay Wade wrote:
> >> Hello:
> >>
> >> I was looking through some OCP questions posted on the web and came across
> >> the one below.
> >> I believe the answer is (D), because the join type would be dependent on the
> >> number of rows within the table. Is this correct or does the OPTIMIZER_MODE
> >> set to FIRST_ROWS alter this behavior?
> >>
> >>
> >> The cost-based optimizer can choose between a nested loops join and a sort
> >> merge join operation. All tables are analyzed and the OPTIMIZER_MODE is set
> >> to FIRST_ROWS. Which execution plan will be the result?
> >>
> >> a. The sort-merge join.
> >>
> >> b. The nested loops join.
> >>
> >> c. This depends on some sort parameter values.
> >>
> >> d. This depends on the number of rows in each table.
> >>
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