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My Simple query takes 30 min to run [message #424272] Thu, 01 October 2009 04:10 Go to next message
dheeraj007
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Hi

I have a table with three fields.

id,attr_name,attr_value.

i have an index on id and attr_name.
there are 500 million rows in the table.

where i run the follow query ti takes 30min. how can i speed it up

select * from table where attr_name ='ad_date' and attr_value ='29/09/09'

this query in my database should return no records..but it does a table access scan...which takes about 30min to return no rows.


Thanks
Re: My Simple query takes 30 min to run [message #424279 is a reply to message #424272] Thu, 01 October 2009 04:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
cookiemonster
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I would suggest an index on attr_name and attr_value
Re: My Simple query takes 30 min to run [message #424280 is a reply to message #424272] Thu, 01 October 2009 04:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
JRowbottom
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I'm guessing that your index is in (id,attr_name), in which case it is of almost no use for any query that isn't searching by id.

Lacking an index to search the table by, it will do a full table scan - in this case, it's reading 500,000,000 rows in 30 minutes, which means it's reading about 278,000 rows a second.
That's pretty good performance in my book.

You should be able to improve the performance of this query by adding an index on (attr_name,attr_value), or (if you have a large number of values of attr_name) then you might get away with an index just on attr_name
Re: My Simple query takes 30 min to run [message #424290 is a reply to message #424272] Thu, 01 October 2009 05:11 Go to previous message
Michel Cadot
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I think you should read http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:10678084117056 and related links.

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Michel
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