Re: Help - "Business Day" Problem

From: Michel Cadot <micadot{at}altern{dot}org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:30:27 +0200
Message-ID: <46322523$0$29849$426a34cc@news.free.fr>

"sybrandb" <sybrandb_at_gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 1177681440.943124.58320_at_r30g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
| On Apr 27, 3:23 pm, "pankaj_wolfhun..._at_yahoo.co.in"
|
| Exactly.
| In fact the most efficient way to check for existence of a record is
| select 1
| from dual
| where exists
| (select 1
| from emp where empno = :1)
|
| Subqueries over DUAL: I love them!
|
| --
| Sybrand Bakker
| Senior Oracle DBA
|

Is this faster than:

select 1 from emp where empno = :1 and rownum = 1;

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

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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 4 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 1 | COUNT STOPKEY | | | | | |
|* 2 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN| PK_EMP | 1 | 4 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |

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Predicate Information (identified by operation id):

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   1 - filter(ROWNUM=1)
   2 - access("EMPNO"=TO_NUMBER(:1))

Your query:

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

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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 1 | FILTER | | | | | |
| 2 | FAST DUAL | | 1 | | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 3 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN| PK_EMP | 1 | 4 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |

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Predicate Information (identified by operation id):

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   1 - filter( EXISTS (SELECT /*+ */ 0 FROM "EMP" "EMP" WHERE

              "EMPNO"=TO_NUMBER(:1)))
   3 - access("EMPNO"=TO_NUMBER(:1))

Regards
Michel Cadot Received on Fri Apr 27 2007 - 11:30:27 CDT