where is ur query statement?
"Bass Chorng" <bchorng_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have 2 tables A and B. Table A contains 86 million rows, about 4.5 GB
> in size. Table B contains 1.2 billion rows, about 25 GB in size.
>
> For each row in table A, I need to query table B, which is indexed,
> returning in average of 15 rows and process them.
>
> If I use foreach cursor and loop thru table A, the result will be
> probably at least 3-4 billion IOs. Since in reality, my index depth
> is probably far more than 10 levels, I would expect total IOs to be
> near 20 billions.
>
> Basically, this is an enormous index range scan.
>
> The # of IO is not a problem, but the time it takes is. This process
> would take 6-7 hours.
>
> Would if be feasible for me to hash join these 2 giant tables
> and not use index at all ? Is it faster this way ?
> What about my temp segment ? I would either give it a
> hash_area_size of 10 GB (not even sure if Oracle accepts that)
> or prepare a temp segment that size, or my process would
> fail.
>
> Your advice is appreciated.
Received on Wed Apr 16 2003 - 23:34:06 CDT
