Parse time over a minute? Was it a huge query or not? I find it hard to believe.
On 03/02/2004 09:36:10 PM, Cary Millsap wrote:
> I don't have access to the data to back this up, but I have seen PARSE
> call response time move from over a minute to less than a second by
> eliminating histograms from the equation. I think when I last saw this,
> it was an Oracle8 system.
>
>
> Cary Millsap
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Breitling
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: RE: query slow in 9i, but not slow in 8i
>
> There surely is some "cost" involved in evaluating a histogram during
> the
> parse phase, but I doubt that it will be significant enough to be
> measurable. But histograms change the estimates of the CBO and it is
> quite
> possible that the presence of a histogram on a column where the content
> is
> not skewed enough to really warrant a histogram can change the estimates
>
> enough to cause the optimizer to use a different, slower access path
> than
> without the histogram.
>
> At 09:14 PM 3/1/2004, you wrote:
>
> >I am unfortunately speaking from heresay, however I heard once that
> having
> >histograms all over the place can slow down parsing as they have to be
> >inspected. I was left with the impression that unless the data is
> skewed
> >enough to warrant a histogram then there actually is a negative cost
> >associated with having too many histograms.
> >
> >Surely someone on this list can either support me or shoot me down on
> this
> >one?
>
> Wolfgang Breitling
> Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA
> Centrex Consulting Corporation
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