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Howdy, I have a query which was taking an extremely long timeto complete. The OPTIMIZER_MODE in the init.ora file is set to CHOOSE, meaning it will use the ALL_ROWS method to determine its access paths. I determined the query was not using the indexes I thought it should. When I changed to use the FIRST_ROWS optimizer_mode, the query ran in under a second. Now FIRST_ROWS is used to minimize response time; ALL_ROWS is used to minimize total execution time. I'm trying to figure out the difference. Using FIRST_ROWS, this is the output from tkprof:
select ra.originatingclli, ra.terminatingclli, r.originatingclli, r.terminatingclli, r.deletedigits, r.prefixdigits, rs.originatingclli, rs.terminatingclli from routingassignmentpersistent ra, route r, routesegmentroute rs1, routesegmentpersistent rs where networktype = 'A C' and networksubtype = 'POTS' and ra.objid = r.ROUTINGASSIGNPERSFINAL_OBJID and r.objid = ROUTE_OBJID and ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT_OBJID = rs.objid and rownum < 5 and ra.startdate is not null call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.00 0.01 0 0 0 0 Execute 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 Fetch 2 0.00 0.00 0 35 0 4 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 4 0.00 0.01 0 35 0 4 Misses in library cache during parse: 1 Optimizer goal: FIRST_ROWS Parsing user id: 29 (NTOPBIG) Rows Row Source Operation ------- --------------------------------------------------- 4 COUNT STOPKEY 4 NESTED LOOPS 4 NESTED LOOPS 2 NESTED LOOPS 1 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID ROUTINGASSIGNMENTPERSISTENT 1 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 16976) 2 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID ROUTE 2 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 16962) 5 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID ROUTESEGMENTROUTE 5 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 16971) 4 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT 7 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN (object id 16965) Rows Execution Plan ------- --------------------------------------------------- 0 SELECT STATEMENT GOAL: FIRST_ROWS 4 COUNT (STOPKEY) 4 NESTED LOOPS 4 NESTED LOOPS 2 NESTED LOOPS 1 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED
(BY INDEX ROWID) OF
'ROUTINGASSIGNMENTPERSISTENT' 1 INDEX GOAL: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF 'IX_ROUTINGASSIGNMENTPERSIST5' (NON-UNIQUE) 2 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED
(BY INDEX ROWID) OF
'ROUTE' 2 INDEX GOAL: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF 'IX_ROUTE4' (NON-UNIQUE) 5 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED
(BY INDEX ROWID) OF
'ROUTESEGMENTROUTE' 5 INDEX GOAL: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF 'IX_ROUTESEGMENTROUTE3'
(NON-UNIQUE)
4 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED
(BY INDEX ROWID) OF
'ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT' 7 INDEX GOAL: ANALYZED (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'IX_ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT'
Using the ALL_ROWS mode, this is the tkprofoutput from the same query:
select ra.originatingclli, ra.terminatingclli, r.originatingclli, r.terminatingclli, r.deletedigits, r.prefixdigits, rs.originatingclli, rs.terminatingclli from routingassignmentpersistent ra, route r, routesegmentroute rs1, routesegmentpersistent rs where networktype = 'A C' and networksubtype = 'POTS' and ra.objid = r.ROUTINGASSIGNPERSFINAL_OBJID and r.objid = ROUTE_OBJID and ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT_OBJID = rs.objid and rownum < 5 and ra.startdate is not null call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.02 0.01 0 0 0 0 Execute 2 0.05 0.06 0 0 5 0 Fetch 2 40.91 471.49 197287 803265 3128 4 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 5 40.98 471.56 197287 803265 3133 4 Misses in library cache during parse: 1 Optimizer goal: ALL_ROWS Parsing user id: 29 (NTOPBIG) Rows Row Source Operation ------- --------------------------------------------------- 4 COUNT STOPKEY 4 MERGE JOIN 4 SORT JOIN 344066 NESTED LOOPS 166100 HASH JOIN 102265 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID ROUTINGASSIGNMENTPERSISTENT 164524 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 16976) 709657 TABLE ACCESS FULL ROUTE 344066 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID ROUTESEGMENTROUTE 510165 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 16971) 4 SORT JOIN 155184 TABLE ACCESS FULL ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT Rows Execution Plan ------- --------------------------------------------------- 0 SELECT STATEMENT GOAL: ALL_ROWS 4 COUNT (STOPKEY) 4 NESTED LOOPS 4 NESTED LOOPS 344066 HASH JOIN 166100 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED (FULL) OF 'ROUTINGASSIGNMENTPERSISTENT' 102265 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED (FULL) OF 'ROUTE' 164524 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'ROUTESEGMENTROUTE' 709657 INDEX GOAL: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF 'IX_ROUTESEGMENTROUTE3' (NON-UNIQUE) 344066 TABLE ACCESS GOAL: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT' 510165 INDEX GOAL: ANALYZED (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'IX_ROUTESEGMENTPERSISTENT' (UNIQUE) So how can the optimizer think that this second way canpossibly be better? Whether you base it on total execution time, resource cost, or whatever?
Bill Carle AT&T Database Administrator 816-995-3922 wcarle_at_att.com
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