What does the COST(%CPU) in explain plan mean?

From: Jia Lu <roka100_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:05:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <40d15b1b-6ffd-46ae-a337-9fcfc75bad77_at_b23g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>



Hi all

I have an explain plan like below. and I doubt about the COST. How is the COST be calculated? I mean what does that mean? (CPU rate?)

SQL> _at_?/rdbms/admin/utlxpls.sql

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT



Plan hash value: 1764098166

| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Cost (%CPU)|
Time |

| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 7824 (1)|
00:01:34 |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 |
| |
| 2 | INDEX FAST FULL SCAN| BIG_TABLE_PK | 6812K| 7824 (1)|
00:01:34 |

Thanks alot.

Lu Received on Sun Apr 18 2010 - 21:05:53 CDT

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