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-- Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Optimising Oracle Seminar - schedule updated July 14th "Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:GpCJc.38$K9.208_at_news.oracle.com...Received on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 15:22:06 CDT
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> This just emphases how volatile state of the art in SQL optimization is.
> This little trick - stopping after finding first match - was the only
> advantage semijoin tuple iteration semantics had over nested loops. I was
> told lately (but didn't verify) that this optimization has been added to
NL
> as well.
>
If you were thinking of the NL-like method of the FILTER operation used for subqueries, then it's "roughly" true. There is an optimization that is designed to minimize the number of times the filter subquery actually operates.