10g ORDER BY Performance

From: Peter Barnett <regdba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <266526.41419.qm@web31603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

First, the disclaimer, someone made a very bad coding decision! Now the question is how to get out of the mess.

We have about 2,000 scripts that do not have ORDER BY clauses anywhere in them. In 9i all of the queries returned the rows in the correct order. More a lucky accident than anything else.

In 10g the optimizer has changed and the results are returned unordered. Since we are weeks away from go live of a major project there is no time to edit and test all of the scripts. Management is now wanting us to go live on 9i rather than 10g. Something the DBA team is really resisting but may be necessary.

I came across a _newsort_enabled parameter which did not change the result set in 10g. Is anyone aware of a parameter that can be set in 10g that will give the 9i behavior other than setting the
optimizer_features_enabled to 9.2? If we do that we might as well be on 9i.

Pete Barnett

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