Question on how cardinality is calculated.

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Does anyone know how Oracle calculates the cardinality of a query such as:

Select * from table_1 where upper(case) like '%12345%';

Execution Plan

   0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=131 Card=5553 Bytes=621936)

   1 0 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'TABLE_1' (Cost=131 Card=5553 Bytes=621936)

Oracle calculates that it is expecting 5553 rows from this query but I know it will only return 2.

How does it do its estimate ?

Ronnie Doggart

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 09:06:05 CST