Re: range-bound queries

I think the problem with the code is that it could return the wrong result as it depends on Oracle using a specific index in a specific way.

The code towards the end of the response addresses that issue, though, by including the extra subquery:   "where ip = (select min(ip) > :bind_ip)"

Even if something goes wrong and Oracle uses an undesirable access path it will still find the correct value.

Regards

Jonathan Lewis
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• Original Message ----- From: "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com> To: <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>; "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:42 PM Subject: RE: range-bound queries

> Hi Andrew,
>
> The article is all Dan Tow. I can’t take credit for any authorship. It all
> started w/ a question I asked here, on Oracle-L, which Dan answered. He got
> the idea for the article, and asked if he could use my name and SQL as is, or
> if I wanted him to obfuscate. I told him to go ahead. But, the authorship is
> all him.
>
> As to the rownum=1, the whole idea there is to short circuit the range scan,
> as soon as you have a single match. It’s a way of implementing the idea
> behind the “least-greater-than-or-equal-to” and
> “greatest-less-than-or-equal-to” operators which he discusses in the article.
>
> To answer your questions, the code that Dan provided went into production
> shortly after he provided me that solution, and I believe it’s still going
> strong, 4 years later. Can you expand on your concerns about it being “safe”?
> To my knowledge, there’s nothing inherently dangerous about it.
>
> -Mark
>
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Kerber
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:30 PM
> To: ORACLE-L
> Subject: range-bound queries
>
> I saw an article recently (the article is actually dated 2005), by Dan Tow and
> Mark Bobak showing a method of speeding up range bound queries by qualifying
> on rownum=1 as part of the query.
>
> http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/01/06/rangekeyed_1.html
>
> Has anyone been able to successfully do that with production SQL?
>
> If so, are there any special conditions that make this technique safe?
>
> Has anyone found another way to reproduce this effect?
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew W. Kerber
>

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