RE: sql tuning quandry

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 05:06:51 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00599773.20030515050651@fatcity.com>

Jared,

<sarcasm>

What have you been drinking?? That is too much work, more typing. Nah ...
</sarcasm>

Okay, seriously, you should look at SQR reports that developers write here. Personally I don't like SQR, but hey I have written about 20 of them. In SQR our developers *love* the varchar2 variables ... so in 95% of the reports where dates are involved you will see code like

and to_char(table_column,'YYYYMMDD') = $in_date

and then they complain that "..this report has bee n working fince since I wrote it for 7.3, your stupid CBO suc*s, it won't use my index in table_column even though I am specifying an exact date.. blah blah".

FBI on this date column is not feasible as every developer has a favorite date format that they use.

Raj

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Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:00 PM
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Steve,

Why aren't the developers using table.column%type ?

Jared

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