Re: tune between query/join

From: amonte <ax.mount_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:09:05 +0200
Message-ID: <CABV7K9uVtMM7ES3hyJBEn7C2NweABOVoMix_NWaUCj2HpqY7cQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

unfortunatey there arent any common columns, this is a pity really this is a data migration process and the guy who modelled this left the company :-(

and yes, it reads million of rows even the entire tables are cached, I dont think this would work even with exadata

let me get some test data...

2011/10/21 David Fitzjarrell <oratune_at_yahoo.com>

> That would be a merge join cartesian, not what you want, really as it
> returs 1,200,000,000,000 rows with at most 8,000,000 rows of actually
> useful results (the result set should be somewhere between 1 and 8,000,000
> depending upon how many rows in account match rows in tmp_account). There
> must be some common column between the two tables to effect a proper join.
> If not then this query is useless and is simply consuming resources better
> used for more productive queries.
>
> Please provide create table statements for both tables and some sample
> data.
>
> David Fitzjarrell
>
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> *From:* amonte <ax.mount_at_gmail.com>
> *To:* Oracle-L Group <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:41 PM
> *Subject:* tune between query/join
>
> Hello everyone
> I am running a query which looks like following (running in 10.2.0.4):
>
> select a.account_number, a.id, b.*
> from account a, tmp_account b
> where b.amount between a.lowest_amount and a.highest_amount
>
> account has 8000000 rows and tmp_account 150000, the execution plan shows
> merge sort join as expected, this query takes around 5 hours to run, is
> there anyway to improve this?
>
>
> Alex
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