Re: Cost Based Optimizer

On 05/19/2005 10:41:24 PM, Larry Elkins wrote:
> Wolfgang and others,

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> Assuming 9i or higher, and work area size policy of auto and pga aggregat=
e
> target set, could this cause a plan change depending upon the workload on
> the machine?=20

Larry, according to what I know, the statement plan depends entirely on the=  statistics
(with histograms, of course) and availability of usable indexes. That is th= e working=20
hypothesis and I haven't yet found any evidence to the contrary, not even i= n version 10g.
The only way I can envision that Oracle is going to change the plan, depend= ing on the machine
utilization is by changing the statistics, depending on the machine utiliza= tion. That=20
narrows things down to dynamic sampling. Dynamic sampling does not collect = system statistics,
as far as I know. The only way to do what you say would be for CBO to dynam= ically sample=20
system statistics and change CPUSPEED. I am not aware of any situation in w= hich optimizer
would do so. In addition to that, applications are often based on the parti= cular execution plan
for the critical statements. Having a feature like that would result in hav= ing applications
behaving unpredictably. I honestly do not see that happening. --=20
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA

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