Re: Updates with correlated subqueries slow after 9.2->10.2 upgrade

One of my growing concerns with our 10g system are the optimizer parameters. All of my other systems have default optimizer parameters. Now that I'm involved with this system, I'm uncomfortable tweaking them. The past DBA was insistent on RBO for all these years and have configured the DB as such.

Since the 10g upgrade, the plan was to establish a good statistics strategy and move away from RULE hints and never analyzing tables. I'm tuning query-by-query and making progress but am wondering if the optimizer settings might be giving us false results.

It's a DW-style environment, optimizer_index_caching is set to 90, optimizer_index_cost_adj is 50. I'm uncomfortable with these values since they tend to lean toward NL operations rather than hash operations.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com>wrote:

> I'm just wondering.. In your move from 9i to 10g, did you generate system
> statistics? While I doubt it will make a difference, it might be worth
> trying. Probably even less important are fixed table statistics, etc...
>
> RF
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> *From:* Neil Kodner <nkodner_at_gmail.com>
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Sent:* Tue, November 17, 2009 3:02:23 PM
> *Subject:* Updates with correlated subqueries slow after 9.2->10.2 upgrade
>
> Now that things are slow and unresponsive, I've been asked to join the
> fray.
>
> Little bit of background:
> DW-type environment
> 4 CPU Solaris 10
> optimizer_index_caching 90
> optimizer_index_cost_adj 50
>
> I didn't set the optimizer parameters, I'm of the 'leave them alone'
> school.
>
> Once our environment was upgraded from 9.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.4, everything
> seemed ok except for UPDATE statements that contain correlated select
> statements. Across the board, we received poor performance compared to
> running them in 9.2.
>
> Another disclaimer-I didn't write this query-but it ran in 3 minutes in
> 9i.
>
> Altering the session and setting optimizer_index_cost_adj=100 and
> optimizer_index_caching=0 didn't make a difference.
>
> A common denominator is that the session-altered plans have a SORT UNIQUE
> step and the default 10g plans do not.
>
> Rather than clutter up the post with the queries and 2 versions of explain
> plans, I wrote everything to a file on my site.
> http://www.neilkodner.com/plan_differences.txt
>
> Would love to hear help/feedback/whatever - I'm struggling with this and
> altering the session each time is unacceptable.
>

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