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Lex,
Is that always true?
I seem to remember a discussion a while back on the OakTable list regarding hash outer joins, and that Oracle would not use the deficient row source as the driving table, though there was no good reason not to. The reply was that it was true for current Oracle releases, and seemed to imply that it was going to be fixed in a future release. I haven't tested 10g to see what it does. (I'd go do a quick test now, but my 10g instance crashed the other day when we lost a disk, and I haven't bothered to re-create it yet.)
It certainly makes sense in the context of a nested loops join, though.
-Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Lex de Haan [mailto:lex.de.haan_at_naturaljoin.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:55 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: [Q] does outer join cause full table scan?
a small correction: in an outer join, there is no choice for the driving table ...
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Bobak, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 19:48
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: [Q] does outer join cause full table scan?
Um, no, outer join does not necessitate a full table scan. You mention having indexes on your join columns. That's (probably) a good thing, but, if you have something like:
select a.*, b.* from a, b
where a.join_id = b.join_id(+);
then, at a minimum, Oracle MUST FTS the driving table. That's because there are no filter predicates. If the statement looked something like:
select a.*, b.* from a, b
where a.join_id = b.join_id(+)
and a.filter_column = 'some value';
AND if there is an index on a.filter_column, then Oracle MAY choose to drive from table a, use that index, and join the filtered rowsource to table b using the index on b.join_id.
Also, keep in mind, with CBO, Oracle decides whether it's reasonable to use any given index. The above was just to illustrate that it's possible to do an outer join and avoid FTS.
-Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: dba1 mcc [mailto:mccdba1_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:29 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: [Q] does outer join cause full table scan?
We have sql statement outer join two tables. The join columns have index on it. I use "tkprof" to check it and it show full table scan.
Does outer join cause 'full table scan"?
Thanks.
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