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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Skip scans
the danger with index skip scanning is that (afaik) some heuristics are
involved.
it is very complicated for the CBO to base decisions purely on statistics;
in other words, the decisions are also based upon some "reasonable"
guesswork...
additions/corrections welcome,
Lex.
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
On Behalf Of Barbara Baker
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 21:27
To: mgogala_at_allegientsystems.com
Cc: Oracle-L (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Skip scans
Hmmm
I wasn't really aware that you could turn them off. Thought you "got them"
starting with 9i.
I had a 9.2.0.4 database that had optimizer_features set to 8.0.4 When I removed the optimizer_features param, I had a query go from 5 minutes to 6 hours. It started using a skip scan. The problem was that the developer went view-crazy. The query went something like "select * from tab1 minus select * from tab2". But tab1 and tab2 were really views, and one of those contained yet another view. Under 8.0 everything was date-driven, which worked. But in 9i Oracle decided to outsmart itself and use another index. Oracle could not see the "big picture" because rather than a nice query that it could optimize, everything was hidden in the views.
Only time I've seen a problem, but it was a biggie. Others have raved about skip scans. I just always seem to get the flaky queries . . .
I'd say go for it, but watch for the sucker-punch.
Barb
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:47:12 -0500, Mladen Gogala
<mgogala_at_allegientsystems.com> wrote:
> Is anybody using index skip scan feature? What would be a situation in
> which the feature should be used? I have a SQL statement, part of ETL
> process that I have to tune. The initial reuslts are encouraging
> although not dramatic. Does anybody else have any type of practical
> experience with skip scans and index_ss hint?
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
> Ext. 121
>
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