Re: Oracle 10g2 LIKE operator and case-insensitive issues

On May 11, 9:06 am, Steve Chien <stevech..._at_wisagetech.com> wrote:
> On 11 May 2007 00:00:03 -0700, Cristian Cudizio
>
>
>
> <cristian.cudi..._at_yahoo.it> wrote:
> >On May 11, 8:50 am, Steve Chien <stevech..._at_wisagetech.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> We're curerrently facing some performance issues related to the
> >> "LIKE" operator in Oracle 10g2. Here is what we encountered.
>
> >> We have a Oracle 10g2 database which has the following
> >> characteristics.
>
> >> NLS_CHARACTERSET => AL32UTF8
> >> NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET => AL16UTF16
> >> NLS_RDBMS_VERSION => 10.2.0.1.0
>
> >> We created a table like below.
> >> -- creates test table
> >> CREATE TABLE MYTEST
> >> (id NUMBER(10, 0) NOT NULL,
> >> str1 VARCHAR2(128) NOT NULL,
> >> str2 NVARCHAR2(128) NOT NULL);
>
> >> Then, we populated with some random data.
> >> -- PL/SQL for creating random data
> >> BEGIN
> >> DBMS_RANDOM.SEED('thisisjustatest');
> >> FOR i IN 1 .. 100000 LOOP
> >> INSERT INTO MYTEST VALUES(i, DBMS_RANDOM.STRING('P', 64),
> >> DBMS_RANDOM.STRING('P', 64));
> >> END LOOP;
> >> INSERT INTO MYTEST VALUES(100001, 'steve', 'chien');
> >> INSERT INTO MYTEST VALUES(100002, 'STEVE', 'CHIEN');
> >> END;
>
> >> Afterwards, we created the indexes.
> >> -- creates indexes
> >> CREATE INDEX AK1_ID_MYTEST ON MYTEST(ID);
> >> CREATE INDEX AK2_STR1_MYTEST ON MYTEST(STR1);
> >> CREATE INDEX AK3_STR2_MYTEST ON MYTEST(STR2);
>
> >> With the "autotrace" turned on , NLS_COMP set to BINARY, and
> >> NLS_SORT set to BINARY in SQLPlus, we did two experiments.
>
> >> CASE I.
> >> select * from mytest where str1 = 'steve'
>
> >> Plan hash value: 587925449
>
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 209 | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 |
> >> | 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| MYTEST | 1 | 209 | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 |
> >> |* 2 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | AK2_STR1_MYTEST | 1 | | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >> Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
> >> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> >> 2 - access("STR1"='steve')
>
> >> CASE II.
> >> select * from mytest where str1 like 'steve%';
>
> >> Plan hash value: 587925449
>
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 209 | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 |
> >> | 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| MYTEST | 1 | 209 | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 |
> >> |* 2 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | AK2_STR1_MYTEST | 1 | | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >> Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
> >> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> >> 2 - access("STR1" LIKE 'steve')
>
> >> Here is what bothered us more... We actually wanted to do
> >> case-insensitive searches & sorts on columnes str1 & str2. We dropped
> >> the indexes and re-created them as blows.
>
> >> - drop & re-create indexes
> >> DROP INDEX AK1_ID_MYTEST;
> >> DROP INDEX AK2_STR1_MYTEST;
> >> DROP INDEX AK3_STR2_MYTEST;
>
> >> - creates indexes
> >> CREATE INDEX AK1_ID_MYTEST ON MYTEST(ID)
> >> CREATE INDEX AK2_STR1_MYTEST ON MYTEST(NLSSORT(STR1,
> >> 'NLS_SORT=GENERIC_M_CI'));
> >> CREATE INDEX AK3_STR2_MYTEST ON MYTEST(NLSSORT(STR2,
> >> 'NLS_SORT=GENERIC_M_CI'));
>
> >> With "autotrace" turned on, NLS_COMP set to LINGUISTIC, and NLS_SORT
> >> set to GENERIC_M_CI in SQLPlus, we dir the following two test cases.
>
> >> CASE I.
> >> select * from mytest where str1 = 'steve'
>
> >> Plan hash value: 3883648009
>
> >> ------ -
> >> -----------------------------------------
> >> | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
> >> ------ -
> >> -----------------------------------------
> >> | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 851 | 173K| 404 (1)| 00:00:05 |
> >> | 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| MYTEST | 851 | 173K| 404 (1)| 00:00:05 |
> >> |* 2 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | AK2_STR1_MYTEST | 340 | | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
> >> ------ -
> >> -----------------------------------------
>
> >> Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
> >> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> >> 2 - access(NLSSORT("STR1",'nls_sort=''GENERIC_M_CI''')=HEXTORAW('
> >> 024F025501FE026101FE00000202020202') )
>
> >> CASE II.
> >> select * from mytest where str1 like 'steve%';
>
> >> Plan hash value: 1692938441
>
> >> ------ - -----------------------------------------
> >> | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
> >> ------ - -----------------------------------------
> >> | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 32 | 6688 | 791 (1)| 00:00:10 |
> >> |* 1 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| MYTEST | 32 | 6688 | 791 (1)| 00:00:10 |
> >> ------ - -----------------------------------------
>
> >> Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
> >> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> >> 1 - filter("STR1" LIKE 'steve%')
>
> >> Oracle was using the "TABLE ACCESS FULL" to handle the "LIKE"
> >> operator. It's extremely slow and we wondered why it couldn't use the
> >> "INDEX RANGE SCAN" anymore.
>
> >> Thanks for any suggestion!
>
> >> - Steve
>
> >On asktom.oracle.com you can find useful information about Oracle db
> >case sensitive. However
> >from 10gR2 you can use
> >NLS_COMP = LINGUISTIC
> >NLS_SORT = BINARY_CI
>
> >it make searches case insensitive
>
> >Bye
> > Cristian Cudizio
>
> >http://oracledb.wordpress.com
> >http://cristiancudizio.wordpress.com
>
> Hi,
>
> We did try the BINARY_CI too. However, the outstanding question is
> that the Oracle was not using the index with the "LIKE" operator.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Steve

Yes, hear me, use
NLS_COMP = LINGUISTIC
NLS_SORT = BINARY_CI it works on 10gR2

Bye
 Cristian Cudizio

http://oracledb.wordpress.com
http://cristiancudizio.wordpress.com Received on Fri May 11 2007 - 02:09:08 CDT