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From: gmei <gmei_at_incyte.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:39:39 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005AE9E1.20030610135920@fatcity.com>


Hi:

I have been trying for two days to see if I could optimize this query without much success. One of the programs here calls this query many many times and I hope I could make it run faster. It typically take about 1 sec to get the result. I have tried using "exists" to replace "in" and the result is not good. All the columns involved in the "where" clause have been indexed. b1 and b2 are bind variables that are passed in.


select distinct observationlist.geneid, pval, score,

        Decode(evidenceCode, 3000900, 'E', 3000902, 'P', 3000906),
        proteomeRefID, Decode(ReferenceType, 'I', 'Y', 'N'), reftarget
from mt.dualblastresults, mt.seqtable querySeq, isi.observationlist, isi.termobs
where subjID = :b1
and queryID = QuerySeq.AASeqID
and querySeq.use='Y'
and querySeq.geneID=observationlist.geneid and curationStatus='E'
and evidenceCode in (3000900,3000902,3000906) and observationlist.id=obsID
and target='GeneID'
and     termobs.termid in (select termid from isi.arc
                         where arctype in (2999999,3000000)
                         start with termid = :b2
                         connect by prior termid=parenttermid)
order by mt.blast.pvaltonumber(pval) asc, score desc, geneid,
         decode(proteomerefid, null, 0, 1) desc;

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This query typically returns 10 or less rows. mt.dualblastresults is a view, all others are tables. BTW, I need "distinct" and "order by" in the query.

Here is the explain plan and row counts in tables and their definition. Anyone has any suggestions to make it run faster?

TIA. Guang

Execution Plan


   0      SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=715 Card=1 Bytes=124
          )

   1    0   SORT (ORDER BY) (Cost=715 Card=1 Bytes=124)
   2    1     SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=662 Card=1 Bytes=124)
   3    2       NESTED LOOPS (Cost=609 Card=1 Bytes=124)
   4    3         NESTED LOOPS (Cost=553 Card=1 Bytes=118)
   5    4           NESTED LOOPS (Cost=550 Card=1 Bytes=106)
   6    5             NESTED LOOPS (Cost=280 Card=30 Bytes=1830)
   7    6               VIEW OF 'DUALBLASTRESULTS' (Cost=112 Card=168
          Bytes=8232)

   8    7                 UNION-ALL
   9    8                   TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'BLASTRES
          ULTS' (Cost=102 Card=118 Bytes=2360)

  10    9                     INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'BLASTRESULTS_SUBJ
          ID_INDEX' (NON-UNIQUE) (Cost=3 Card=118)

  11    8                   TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'BLASTRES
          ULTS' (Cost=10 Card=50 Bytes=1000)

  12   11                     INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'BLASTRESULTS_QUER
          YID_INDEX' (NON-UNIQUE) (Cost=3 Card=50)

  13    6               TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'SEQTABLE' (C
          ost=1 Card=57344 Bytes=688128)

  14   13                 INDEX (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'ST_ASI_UN' (UNIQUE)
  15    5             TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'OBSERVATIONLIS
          T' (Cost=9 Card=499 Bytes=22455)

  16   15               INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'OBSERVATIONLISTGENEID'
          (NON-UNIQUE) (Cost=2 Card=499)

  17    4           TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'TERMOBS' (Cost=3
           Card=2388115 Bytes=28657380)

  18   17             INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'TERMOBSIDINDEX' (NON-UNIQ
          UE) (Cost=2 Card=2388115)

  19    3         VIEW OF 'VW_NSO_1' (Cost=56 Card=7 Bytes=42)
  20   19           SORT (UNIQUE) (Cost=56 Card=7 Bytes=126)
  21   20             FILTER
  22   21               CONNECT BY
  23   22                 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'ARC_TERMID' (NON-UNIQ
          UE) (Cost=1 Card=2 Bytes=12)

  24   22                 TABLE ACCESS (BY USER ROWID) OF 'ARC'
  25   22                 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'ARC_TYPETERMPARENT' (
          UNIQUE) (Cost=3 Card=8 Bytes=144)



SQL> select count(*) from mt.dualblastresults;

  COUNT(*)



  22332188

SQL> select count(*) from mt.seqtable ;

  COUNT(*)


    373505

SQL> select count(*) from isi.observationlist;

  COUNT(*)


   2290858

SQL> select count(*) from isi.termobs;

  COUNT(*)


   2388115

SQL> select count(*) from isi.arc;

  COUNT(*)


    207375

SQL> desc mt.dualblastresults

 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- -------------------
 ID                                                 NUMBER
 QUERYID                                            NUMBER
 SUBJID                                             NUMBER
 MATCHLEN                                           NUMBER
 IDENTITY                                           NUMBER
 POSITIVE                                           NUMBER
 GAP                                                NUMBER
 PVAL                                               VARCHAR2(16)
 SCORE                                              NUMBER
 QUERYSTART                                         NUMBER
 QUERYEND                                           NUMBER
 SUBJSTART                                          NUMBER
 SUBJEND                                            NUMBER
 CCOMMENT                                           VARCHAR2(300)
 BLASTDATE                                          DATE
 QFRAME                                             NUMBER
 SFRAME                                             NUMBER
 QUERYSPID                                          NUMBER
 SUBJSPID                                           NUMBER

SQL> desc mt.seqtable ;
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- --------------------
 ID                                        NOT NULL NUMBER
 AASEQID                                            NUMBER
 DNASEQID                                           NUMBER
 GENEID                                    NOT NULL NUMBER
 USE                                                CHAR(1)
 ALTSPLICE                                          VARCHAR2(128)
 MUTANT                                             VARCHAR2(128)
 STRAIN                                             VARCHAR2(128)
 CDSSTRING                                          VARCHAR2(2000)
 VALID                                              CHAR(1)
 GENOMEPROJ                                         CHAR(1)
 CDNA                                               CHAR(1)
 PARTIALNTERM                                       CHAR(1)
 PARTIALCTERM                                       CHAR(1)
 TRANSID                                            NUMBER
 CCOMMENT                                           VARCHAR2(300)
 EST                                                CHAR(1)
 CLASS                                              VARCHAR2(128)
 SEQDATE                                            DATE
 CURID                                              NUMBER

SQL> desc isi.observationlist;
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- --------------------
 ID                                        NOT NULL NUMBER
 GENEID                                             NUMBER
 CURATIONTYPE                                       NUMBER
 PROTEOMEREFID                                      NUMBER
 SOURCEID                                           NUMBER
 SOURCETABLE                                        VARCHAR2(25)
 DESTID                                             NUMBER
 DESTTABLE                                          VARCHAR2(25)
 DESTDATE                                           DATE
 REFERENCETYPE                                      VARCHAR2(1)
 EVIDENCECODE                                       NUMBER
 CURATORID                                          NUMBER
 EDITORID                                           NUMBER
 UPDATESTAMP                                        DATE
 CURATIONSTATUS                                     VARCHAR2(1)
 ORIGINALSTAMP                                      DATE
 NEXTOBS                                            NUMBER
 TARGET                                             VARCHAR2(15)
 REFTARGET                                          VARCHAR2(15)
 TOOL                                               VARCHAR2(25)
 OLDGENEID                                          NUMBER

SQL> desc isi.termobs;
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- -----------
 OBSID                                              NUMBER
 TERMID                                             NUMBER
 CONTEXT                                            NUMBER

SQL> desc isi.arc
 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- ---------------
 TERMID                                    NOT NULL NUMBER
 PARENTTERMID                              NOT NULL NUMBER
 OBSID                                              NUMBER
 ARCTYPE                                   NOT NULL NUMBER
 ARCID                                              NUMBER

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