Help reading an explain plan

Here is an except from an explain plan.
what does index$_join_002 mean?
| Id  | Operation                         | Name                        | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                  |                             |     1 |    74 |   133K  (1)| 00:31:04 |
|*  1 |  FILTER                           |                             |       |       |            |          |
|*  2 |   HASH JOIN RIGHT SEMI            |                             | 26855 |  1940K| 10561   (1)| 00:02:28 |
|*  3 |    VIEW                           | index$_join$_002            | 66364 |   907K|   851   (2)| 00:00:12

I am having trouble forcing a good plan. I have 2 databases with comparable data sets and the indexes are the same. One has a good plan and one a bad plan. When I analyze the tables in the database with the good plan, it changes to the bad plan.
Definiton of good plan: returns in 3 seconds
definition of bad plan: returns in 6 minutes.
Note that as soon as i analyzed the tables, I started getting the bad plan. I am at a loss on how to force the plan to change.
BAD PLAN
| Id  | Operation                         | Name                        | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                  |                             |     1 |    70 | 62008   (1)| 00:14:29 |
|*  1 |  FILTER                           |                             |       |       |            |          |
|*  2 |   HASH JOIN SEMI                  |                             | 29528 |  2018K|  1501   (1)| 00:00:22 |
|*  3 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID    | EXT_T                       | 29528 |  1614K|  1344   (0)| 00:00:19 |
|   4 |     DOMAIN INDEX                  | EXT_TEXT_IND                      |       |       | 13441   (0)| 00:03:09 |
|   5 |    MAT_VIEW ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | KM_MV                    |   107K|  1464K|   155   (0)| 00:00:03 |
|*  6 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN              | KAP_IND                            |   107K|         |   136   (1)| 00:00:02 |good plan. I dont get this when I analyze my tables.
| Id  | Operation                         | Name                        | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                  |                             |     1 |    74 |   133K  (1)| 00:31:04 |
|*  1 |  FILTER                           |                             |       |       |            |          |
|*  2 |   HASH JOIN RIGHT SEMI            |                             | 26855 |  1940K| 10561   (1)| 00:02:28 |
|*  3 |    VIEW                           | index$_join$_002            | 66364 |   907K|   851   (2)| 00:00:12 |
|*  4 |     HASH JOIN                     |                             |       |       |            |          |
|*  5 |      INDEX RANGE SCAN             | KAP_IND | 66364 |   907K|   105   (1)| 00:00:02 |
|   6 |      INDEX FAST FULL SCAN         | KAP_PK                      | 66364 |   907K|   742   (1)| 00:00:11 |
|*  7 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID    | EXT_T      | 26855 |  1573K|  9709   (0)| 00:02:16 |
|   8 |     DOMAIN INDEX                  | EXT_TEXT_IND     |       |       |  9709   (0)| 00:02:16 |Edited by: Guess2 on Jul 1, 2009 9:06 AM
Edited by: Guess2 on Jul 1, 2009 9:07 AM
Edited by: Guess2 on Jul 1, 2009 9:07 AM
Edited by: Guess2 on Jul 1, 2009 9:08 AM

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                                                        ON  (SRC2.PGM_MSTR_NBR=ACCR2.PGM_MSTR_NBR AND SRC2.PGM_TRK_NBR=ACCR2.PGM_TRK_NBR AND SRC2.CNTL_LOCN=ACCR2.CNTL_LOCN)
                                                  LEFT OUTER JOIN
                                                            CASADM.MT_CMPNY_VNDR LKP3
                                                        ON (LKP3.CMPNY_VNDR_NBR=SRC2.CMPNY_VNDR_NBR);
    Record Count in each table:
    select count(*) from casadm.accr_sis_purch_dtl --375,968
    select count(*) from casadm.accr_sis_excl_dtl --1,988,867
    select count(*) from casadm.sba_reb_pgm --526,133
    select count(*) from casadm.mt_cmpny_vndr --20743
    Execution Plan
    Plan hash value: 1465316812
    | Id  | Operation                    | Name                  | Rows  | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost (%CPU)| Time|
    |   0 | SELECT STATEMENT             |                       |     9 |  1908 | | 26988   (2)| 00:06:18 |
    |   1 |  NESTED LOOPS OUTER          |                       |     9 |  1908 | | 26988   (2)| 00:06:18 |
    |*  2 |   HASH JOIN                  |                       |     9 |  1656 |83M| 26979   (2)| 00:06:18|
    |   3 |    TABLE ACCESS FULL         | SBA_REB_PGM           |   536K|    77M| |  2624   (2)| 00:00:37 |
    |   4 |    VIEW                      |                       |  2364K|    74M| | 16424   (2)| 00:03:50 |
    |   5 |     SORT UNIQUE              |                       |  2364K|    49M|72M| 16424  (86)| 00:03:50|
    |   6 |      UNION-ALL               |                       |       |       ||            |          |
    |   7 |       INDEX FAST FULL SCAN   | ACCR_SIS_PURCH_DTL_PK |   375K|  8077K||   871   (1)| 00:00:13 |
    |   8 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL      | ACCR_SIS_EXCL_DTL     |  1988K|    41M||  5634   (1)| 00:01:19 |
    |   9 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| MT_CMPNY_VNDR         |     1 |    28 | |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
    |* 10 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | MT_CMPNY_VNDR_PK      |     1 |       | |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
    Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
       2 - access("SRC2"."PGM_MSTR_NBR"="ACCR2"."PGM_MSTR_NBR" AND
                  "SRC2"."PGM_TRK_NBR"="ACCR2"."PGM_TRK_NBR" AND "SRC2"."CNTL_LOCN"=
    "ACCR2"."CNTL_LOCN")
      10 - access("LKP3"."CMPNY_VNDR_NBR"(+)="SRC2"."CMPNY_VNDR_NBR")
    Statistics
            102  recursive calls
              0  db block gets
          34558  consistent gets
          23241  physical reads
             88  redo size
         531258  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
           2760  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
            361  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
              1  sorts (memory)
              0  sorts (disk)
           5392  rows processed

    With respect to HASH JOIN it has two operands a TABLE ACCESS FULL and VIEW. Oracle joins these results together based on the following access predicate:
    2 - access("SRC2"."PGM_MSTR_NBR"="ACCR2"."PGM_MSTR_NBR" AND
                  "SRC2"."PGM_TRK_NBR"="ACCR2"."PGM_TRK_NBR" AND "SRC2"."CNTL_LOCN"="ACCR2"."CNTL_LOCN")The VIEW is the result of the union between the CASADM.ACCR_SIS_PURCH_DTL and CASADM.ACCR_SIS_EXCL_DTL where instead of accessing the table CASADM.ACCR_SIS_PURCH_DTL Oracle was able to acquire all the data from the index ACCR_SIS_PURCH_DTL_PK .
    The TABLE ACCESS FULL is exactly what says a full table access of SBA_REB_PGM.
    The NESTED LOOPS OUTER has two operands like the HASH JOIN. The way this works is that for each result returned by the HASH JOIN operation it accesses the index MT_CMPNY_VNDR_PK and then the table MT_CMPNY_VNDR based on the following access predicate:
    10 - access("LKP3"."CMPNY_VNDR_NBR"(+)="SRC2"."CMPNY_VNDR_NBR")It'd probably be worthwhile for you to review the following paper by Christian Antognini Interpreting Execution Plans as well.

  • Help needed in EXPLAIN PLAN for a partitioned table

    Oracle Version 9i
    (Paste execution plan in a spreadsheet to make sense out of it)
    I am trying to tune this query -
    select * from comm c ,dates d
    where
    d.active_period = 'Y'
    and c.period = d.period;
    Operation     Object Name     Rows     Bytes     Cost     Object Node     In/Out     PStart     PStop
    SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer Mode=CHOOSE          5 M          278887                     
    HASH JOIN          5 M     5G     278887                     
    TABLE ACCESS FULL     SCHEMA.DATES     24      1 K     8                     
    PARTITION LIST ALL                                   1     8
    TABLE ACCESS FULL     SCHEMA.COMM     6 M     5G     277624                1     8
    However, I know that the dates table will return only one record. So, if I add another condition to the above query, I get this execution plan. The comm table is huge but it is partitioned on period.
    select * from comm c ,dates d
    where
    d.active_period = 'Y'
    and c.period = qd.period
    and c.period = 'OCT-07'
    Operation     Object Name     Rows     Bytes     Cost     Object Node     In/Out     PStart     PStop
    SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer Mode=CHOOSE          1           8                     
    MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN          1      9 K     8                     
    TABLE ACCESS FULL     SCHEMA.DATES     1      69      8                     
    BUFFER SORT          1      9 K                         
    TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID     SCHEMA.COMM     1      9 K                    7     7
    INDEX RANGE SCAN     SCHEMA.COMM_NP9     1                          7     7
    How can I make the query such that the comm table does not have to traverse all of its partitions? The partitioning is based on quarters so it will get its data in one partition only (in the above example - partition no. 7)
    Thanks in advance for writing in your replies :)

    You need to specify period = 'OCT-07', otherwise there is no way the optimizer can know it needs to access only one partition.
    Alternatively, partition the DATES table in exactly the same way on "period", and partition-wise joins should kick in, and effectively accessing only the active partition.

  • Simple Explain Plan

    Oracle 11g R2,
    Windows 7 OS.
    I would like to know, how oracle is using the view in the below explain plan and is it possible to skip using of view in below explain plan(but i don't want to go for NO_INDEX or FULL hints).I purpose fully didn't pasted the time,bytes,rows parameters.Only thing is view is used, and upon this i want clarity
    select e.employee_id,e.first_name from employees e;
    OPERATION                 OPTIONS              OBJECT_NAME           COST      
    SELECT STATEMENT                                                        3      
    VIEW                                           index$_join$_00          3      
                                                   1                               
    HASH JOIN                                                                      
    INDEX                     FAST FULL SCAN       EMP_EMP_ID_PK            1      
    INDEX                     FAST FULL SCAN       EMP_NAME_IX              1       One more thing i would like to add, this is just sample HR schema(default schema) in oracle.View "EMP_DETAILS_VIEW" is already present in this schema, which selects first_name,last_name etc.. from employee table.
    Thanks.
    Edited by: 902629 on Dec 15, 2011 10:40 AM

    Execute alter session set "_INDEX_JOIN_ENABLED"=FALSE; and execute the query.
    help reading an explain plan
    Thanks

  • About explain plan

    Hello ALL,
    I have the following explain plan, can any body explain the meaning of this explain plan
    SELECT * FROM
    2 TABLE(DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY('PLAN_TABLE','111'));
    | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost |
    | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 401 | 25263 | | 751K|
    | 1 | MERGE JOIN SEMI | | 401 | 25263 | | 751K|
    | 2 | SORT JOIN | | 17M| 820M| 2108M| 75297 |
    | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | TABLE1 | 17M| 820M| | 3520 |
    |* 4 | SORT UNIQUE | | 275M| 3412M| 10G| 676K|
    | 5 | VIEW | VW_NSO_1 | 275M| 3412M| | 3538 |
    |* 6 | HASH JOIN | | 275M| 7874M| | 3538 |
    |* 7 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| TABLE2 | 16 | 128 | | 2 |
    |* 8 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| TABLE1 | 17M| 360M| | 3520 |
    Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
    4 - access("TABLE1"."POSITION"="VW_NSO_1"."$nso_col_1")
    filter("TABLE1"."POSITION"="VW_NSO_1"."$nso_col_1")
    6 - access("TABLE2"."VERSION_NO"="TABLE1"."VERSION_NO")
    7 - filter("TABLE2"."STATIC_UPD_FLAG"='N')
    8 - filter("TABLE1"."DATETIME_INSERTED">TO_DATE('0004-01-01 00:00:00',
    'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'))
    Note: cpu costing is off
    26 rows selected.
    SQL>

    There is a section in the manual on interpreting the output of explain plan http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96533/ex_plan.htm#16972 Tom Kyte also discusses interpreting the plan http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:231814117467#7344298017927 (page down about halfway where he starts his book excerpt).
    Rows, bytes, and temp space are the cost-based optimizer's guess about the number of rows, bytes, and temp space that will be touched (or consumed) by the operation. The cost is an internal number that has no significance to you when you're reading an explain plan-- it does have some significance when you are examining an event 10046 trace.
    Justin
    Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
    http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

  • Reading explain plan

    Hi
    I need some help with explain plan...tried some documents but didnt get the clarity...here is the query...
    explain plan for
    select ename,dname,grade
    from emp,dept,salgrade
    where emp.deptno=dept.deptno
    and emp.sal between salgrade.losal and salgrade.hisal;
    and here is the explain plan for this query..
    PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
    | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost |
    | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | |
    | 1 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
    | 2 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
    | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | SALGRADE | | | |
    |* 4 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | EMP | | | |
    | 5 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| DEPT | | | |
    |* 6 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PK_DEPT | | | |
    PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
    Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
    4 - filter("EMP"."SAL"<="SALGRADE"."HISAL" AND "EMP"."SAL">="SALGRADE"
    ."LOSAL")
    6 - access("EMP"."DEPTNO"="DEPT"."DEPTNO")
    Note: rule based optimization
    21 rows selected.
    Execution Plan
    0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE
    1 0 COLLECTION ITERATOR (PICKLER FETCH) OF 'DISPLAY'
    [i suppose it will remove all the spaces....so sorry .... :-( ]
    now i have some questions regarding this like...
    1. wat does these * mean with 4 and 6
    2. how we come to know that which part got executed first and others after that.....as we draw a tree to represent all the steps....
    3. wat is this Predicate Information
    4. wat info is given at the last titled "Execution Plan"
    please help
    thanks
    Sidhu

    Sidhu,
    1. wat does these * mean with 4 and 6It means that predicates are applied during this step. You'll see that there is a 4 and a 6 in the predicate informatiion, to specify the actual predicates being applied. The star is to indicate the presence of a predicate.
    2. how we come to know that which part got executed
    first and others after that.....as we draw a tree to
    represent all the steps....This example is taken from an AskTom thread. In this thread he described in great detail how such a tree should be read. I cannot do it better.
    3. wat is this Predicate InformationThe filters that are applied to restrict the result set.
    4. wat info is given at the last titled "Execution
    Plan"You were probably autotracing the 'select * from table(dbms_xplan.display)' itself. So this section is not relevant.
    Regards,
    Rob.

  • Need help understanding Explain Plan from 10046 trace

    Below is a query and Explain Plan from a 10046 trace shown with trcanlzr.sql.
    In the explain plan I don't understand what's happining at line ID 10 and 11. Specifically, is the result at line 11 rowids from lines 12 & 14? and then what? Are those rowids somehow used in line ID 10?
    SELECT cp.cred_process_id, cp.provider_id,
           brdg_credentialing.get_appl_specialist(cp.cred_process_id,'R') specialist_name,
           brdg_cred_report_pkg.provider_name(cp.cred_process_id) provider_name,
           ctc_apptype.description appl_type_desc,
           TRUNC (brdg_credentialing.get_appl_received_dt(cp.cred_process_id)) init_received_dt,
           brdg_code_util.code_descr(brdg_credentialing.get_appl_status_cd_ctc_id(cp.cred_process_id)) appl_status_desc,
           brdg_credentialing.get_appl_prac_specialties(cp.cred_process_id,'Y') primary_specialty,
           cwh.city practice_city,
           UPPER (cwh.state) practice_state,
           TRUNC (ch.event_dt) specialist_assign_dt,
           DECODE (ctc_apptype.code,'INITPPO', TRUNC (brdg_credentialing.get_appl_received_dt(cp.cred_process_id)),
                   'REAPP', TRUNC (brdg_credentialing.get_appl_received_dt(cp.cred_process_id)),
                   'SPECCRED', TRUNC (brdg_credentialing.get_appl_received_dt(cp.cred_process_id)),
                   'TRANS', TRUNC (brdg_credentialing.get_appl_received_dt(cp.cred_process_id)),
                   'RECPPO', p.next_recred_dt,
                   'RECAPP', p.next_recred_dt, NULL) sort_date,
                   p.next_recred_dt
      FROM brdg_cred_app_open_vw cp,
           brdg_cat_type_codes ctc_apptype,
           brdg_cred_work_history cwh,
           brdg_cred_history ch,
           brdg_providers p
    WHERE cp.type_cd_ctc_id = ctc_apptype.cat_type_code_id
       AND ctc_apptype.category_cd = 'CRED'
       AND ctc_apptype.type_cd = 'APPTYPE'
       AND cp.cred_process_id = cwh.cred_process_id (+)
       AND cwh.primary_practice_flag (+) = 'Y'
       AND cp.cred_process_id = ch.cred_process_id
       AND ch.cred_history_id = (SELECT MAX(cred_history_id)
                                   FROM brdg_cred_history
                                  WHERE cred_process_id = cp.cred_process_id
                                    AND event_cd_ctc_id = brdg_credentialing.get_event_ctc_id ('SEVENT','SPESTCHG'))
       AND cp.provider_id = p.provider_id (+)
       and brdg_credentialing.get_appl_specialist_id(cp.cred_process_id) = 5
    ORDER BY 3 ASC, 3, 5, 12, 6
            Explain Plan Operation
    ID   PID    Card     Rows    Cost      SearchCols  /   Indexed Cols     Predicates 
    0:    1                       36   SELECT STATEMENT   
    1:    0     1       139       36    SORT ORDER BY   
    2:    1             139            . FILTER   [+]  
    3:    2     1       311       11   .. NESTED LOOPS OUTER   
    4:    3     1       311       10   ... NESTED LOOPS OUTER   
    5:    4     1       311        9   .... NESTED LOOPS   
    6:    5     1       311        8   ....+ NESTED LOOPS   
    7:    6     4        16        1   ....+. TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CAT_TYPE_CODES   
    8:    7     4        16        1   ....+.. INDEX RANGE SCAN CAT_TYPE_CODE_UK 2/3 [+]   [+]  
    9:    6     1       311        2   ....+. TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CRED_PROCESSES   [+]  
    10:    9   183     61927        1   ....+.. INDEX RANGE SCAN CDPR_CTCD_FK1 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    11:   10     1         3        2   ....+... NESTED LOOPS   
    12:   11     1        16        1   ....+.... TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CAT_TYPE_CODES   
    13:   12     1        16        1   ....+....+ INDEX UNIQUE SCAN CTCD_PK 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    14:   11     1         3        1   ....+.... INDEX UNIQUE SCAN CAT_TYPE_CODE_UK 3/3 [+]   [+]  
    15:    5     1        11        1   ....+ TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CRED_HISTORY   [+]  
    16:   15     1       311        1   ....+. INDEX UNIQUE SCAN CDHT_PK 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    17:   16     1       311            ....+.. SORT AGGREGATE   
    18:   17     1       526        2   ....+... TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CRED_HISTORY   [+]  
    19:   18    23      9950        1   ....+.... INDEX RANGE SCAN CDHT_CDPR_FK 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    20:    4     1       219        1   .... TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PROVIDERS   
    21:   20     1       219        1   ....+ INDEX UNIQUE SCAN PROV_PK 1/1 [+]  [+]  
    22:    3     1       311        1   ... TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CRED_WORK_HISTORY   [+] 
    23:   22     3      1057        1   .... INDEX RANGE SCAN CDWH_CDPR_FK 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    24:    2   172                      .. INLIST ITERATOR   
    25:   24     1       172        1   ... INDEX UNIQUE SCAN CAT_TYPE_CODE_UK 3/3 [+]   [+]  
    26:    2     1         0        2   .. TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CRED_HISTORY   [+]  
    27:   26    23      2004        1   ... INDEX RANGE SCAN CDHT_CDPR_FK 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    (1) X/Y: Where X is the number of searched columns from index, which has a total of Y columns.
    (2) Actual rows returned by operation (average if there were more than 1 execution).
       2 - filter( NOT EXISTS (SELECT 0 FROM "PPO"."CAT_TYPE_CODES" "BRDG_CAT_TYPE_CODES" WHERE
                  "CODE"="BRDG_CODE_UTIL"."ID_CODE"("BRDG_CREDENTIALING"."GET_APPL_STATUS_CD_CTC_ID"(:B1)) AND
                  ("TYPE_CD"='APPROVAL' OR "TYPE_CD"='DENIED' OR "TYPE_CD"='INACTIVE' OR "TYPE_CD"='TERMED') AND
                  "CATEGORY_CD"='APPSTAT') AND  NOT EXISTS (SELECT 0 FROM "PPO"."CRED_HISTORY" "BRDG_CRED_HISTORY"
                  WHERE "CRED_PROCESS_ID"=:B2 AND "EVENT_CD_CTC_ID"="BRDG_CODE_UTIL"."GET_ID"('CRED','SEVENT','MSODC
       8 - access("CTC_APPTYPE"."CATEGORY_CD"='CRED' AND "CTC_APPTYPE"."TYPE_CD"='APPTYPE')
       9 - filter("BRDG_CREDENTIALING"."GET_APPL_SPECIALIST_ID"("CP"."CRED_PROCESS_ID")=5 AND
                  ("CP"."INS_DT">=TO_DATE(' 2007-12-20 17:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') OR
                  "CP"."TYPE_CD_CTC_ID"<>"BRDG_CODE_UTIL"."GET_ID"('CRED','APPTYPE','RECPPO')))
      10 - access("CP"."TYPE_CD_CTC_ID"="CTC_APPTYPE"."CAT_TYPE_CODE_ID")
           filter( NOT EXISTS (SELECT 0 FROM "PPO"."CAT_TYPE_CODES"
                  "CTC_APPTYPE","PPO"."CAT_TYPE_CODES" "CTC_TYPE" WHERE "CTC_TYPE"."CAT_TYPE_CODE_ID"=:B1 AND
                  "CTC_TYPE"."CODE"="CTC_APPTYPE"."CODE" AND "CTC_APPTYPE"."TYPE_CD"='APPSENT' AND
                  "CTC_APPTYPE"."CATEGORY_CD"='APPTYPE'))
      13 - access("CTC_TYPE"."CAT_TYPE_CODE_ID"=:B1)
      14 - access("CTC_APPTYPE"."CATEGORY_CD"='APPTYPE' AND "CTC_APPTYPE"."TYPE_CD"='APPSENT' AND
                  "CTC_TYPE"."CODE"="CTC_APPTYPE"."CODE")
      15 - filter("CP"."CRED_PROCESS_ID"="CH"."CRED_PROCESS_ID")
      16 - access("CH"."CRED_HISTORY_ID"= (SELECT MAX("CRED_HISTORY_ID") FROM "PPO"."CRED_HISTORY"
                  "BRDG_CRED_HISTORY" WHERE "CRED_PROCESS_ID"=:B1 AND
                  "EVENT_CD_CTC_ID"="BRDG_CREDENTIALING"."GET_EVENT_CTC_ID"('SEVENT','SPESTCHG')))
      18 - filter("EVENT_CD_CTC_ID"="BRDG_CREDENTIALING"."GET_EVENT_CTC_ID"('SEVENT','SPESTCHG'))
      19 - access("CRED_PROCESS_ID"=:B1)
      21 - access("CP"."PROVIDER_ID"="P"."PROVIDER_ID"(+))
      22 - filter("CWH"."PRIMARY_PRACTICE_FLAG"(+)='Y')
      23 - access("CP"."CRED_PROCESS_ID"="CWH"."CRED_PROCESS_ID"(+))
      25 - access("CATEGORY_CD"='APPSTAT' AND ("TYPE_CD"='APPROVAL' OR "TYPE_CD"='DENIED' OR
                  "TYPE_CD"='INACTIVE' OR "TYPE_CD"='TERMED') AND "CODE"="BRDG_CODE_UTIL"."ID_CODE"("BRDG_CREDENTIAL
                  ING"."GET_APPL_STATUS_CD_CTC_ID"(:B1)))
      26 - filter("EVENT_CD_CTC_ID"="BRDG_CODE_UTIL"."GET_ID"('CRED','SEVENT','MSODC'))
      27 - access("CRED_PROCESS_ID"=:B1)

    Welcome to the forums!
    user11987210 wrote:
    In the explain plan I don't understand what's happining at line ID 10 and 11. Specifically, is the result at line 11 rowids from lines 12 & 14? and then what? Are those rowids somehow used in line ID 10?
    9:    6     1       311        2   ....+. TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CRED_PROCESSES   [+]  
    10:    9   183     61927        1   ....+.. INDEX RANGE SCAN CDPR_CTCD_FK1 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    11:   10     1         3        2   ....+... NESTED LOOPS   
    12:   11     1        16        1   ....+.... TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CAT_TYPE_CODES   
    13:   12     1        16        1   ....+....+ INDEX UNIQUE SCAN CTCD_PK 1/1 [+]   [+]  
    14:   11     1         3        1   ....+.... INDEX UNIQUE SCAN CAT_TYPE_CODE_UK 3/3 [+]   [+]   The NESTED LOOPS operation (ID #11) has two children, ID #12 sometimes called the driving source, and ID #14 the inner loop. ID #14 is executed once for each row returned by ID #12. The results of ID #11 are then fed to ID #10 which performs an INDEX RANGE SCAN.
    Hope this helps!

  • Please help to understand 10g explain plan

    Hello
    I am trying to optimize one query. I have taken explain plan of this query in 9i and 10g database both.
    Explain plan for index scan is different in 9i and 10g. In 9i inedex was scaned with INDEX RANGE SCAN NON-UNIQUE and in 10g index is scanned with
    INDEX RANGE SCAN.
    Can anybody explain the difference of scanning an index in 9i and 10g? Cost in 9i was 74 and now in 10g it is 1134.
    Thanks in advance

    Well, if you tables structures and indexes are the same in both databases then that's unlikely to be an issue, however you need to check other factors such as whether statistics have been gathered for the data recently.
    For helpful info on optimising queries and what to look out for read the following thread...
    [When your query takes too long|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1812597#1812597]

  • [8i] Can someone help me on using explain plan, tkprof, etc.?

    I am trying to follow the instructions at When your query takes too long ...
    I am trying to figure out why a simple query takes so long.
    The query is:
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS tot_rows FROM my_table;It takes a good 5 minutes or so to run (best case), and the result is around 22 million (total rows).
    My generic username does not (evidently) allow access to PLAN_TABLE, so I had to log on as SYSTEM to run explain plan. In SQL*Plus, I typed in:
    explain plan for (SELECT COUNT(*) AS tot_rows FROM my_table);and the response was "Explained."
    Isn't this supposed to give me some sort of output, or am I missing something?
    Then, the next step in the post I linked is to use tkprof. I see that it says it will output a file to a path specified in a parameter. The only problem is, I don't have access to the db's server. I am working remotely, and do not have any way to remotely (or directly) access the db server. Is there any way to have the file output to my local machine, or am I just S.O.L.?

    SomeoneElse used "create table as" (CTAS), wich automatically gathers the stats. You can see the differende before and after stats clearly in this example.
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    drop table ttemp;
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    Table dropped.
    Table created.
    Table altered.
    46888 rows created.
      COUNT(*)
         46888
    1 row selected.
    Execution Plan
               SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer Mode=CHOOSE
       1         SORT AGGREGATE
       2    1      TABLE ACCESS FULL PROD.TTEMP
    Statistics
              1  recursive calls
              1  db block gets
            252  consistent gets
              0  physical reads
            120  redo size
              0  PX remote messages sent
              0  PX remote messages recv'd
              0  buffer is pinned count
              0  workarea memory allocated
              4  workarea executions - optimal
              1  rows processed
    PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
      COUNT(*)
         46888
    1 row selected.
    Execution Plan
               SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer Mode=CHOOSE (Cost=4 Card=1)
       1         SORT AGGREGATE (Card=1)
       2    1      INDEX FAST FULL SCAN PROD.TTEMP_PK (Cost=4 Card=46 K)
    Statistics
              1  recursive calls
              2  db block gets
            328  consistent gets
              0  physical reads
           8856  redo size
              0  PX remote messages sent
              0  PX remote messages recv'd
              0  buffer is pinned count
              0  workarea memory allocated
              4  workarea executions - optimal
              1  rows processed

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    The second plan has a lower cost but has much higher consistent gets !!
    Please advise.
    Plan 1:
    Execution Plan
       0      SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=HINT: FIRST_ROWS (Cost=8637 Card= 1 Bytes=10132)
       1    0   SORT (ORDER BY) (Cost=8637 Card=1 Bytes=10132)
       2    1     WINDOW (SORT) (Cost=8637 Card=1 Bytes=10132)
       3    2       COUNT (STOPKEY)
       4    3         VIEW (Cost=8635 Card=1 Bytes=10132)
       5    4           SORT (ORDER BY) (Cost=8635 Card=1 Bytes=862)
       6    5             WINDOW (SORT) (Cost=8635 Card=1 Bytes=862)
       7    6               MAT_VIEW ACCESS (FULL) OF 'PRD_SEARCH_MVW' (MAT_VIEW) (Cost=8633 Card=1 Bytes=862)
    Statistics
            577  recursive calls
              0  db block gets
          39202  consistent gets
          34798  physical reads
              0  redo size
          72348  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
           4295  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
              9  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
             10  sorts (memory)
              0  sorts (disk)
            100  rows processed
    Plan-2
    Execution Plan
       0      SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=HINT: FIRST_ROWS (Cost=982 Card=1 Bytes=10145)
       1    0   SORT (ORDER BY) (Cost=982 Card=1 Bytes=10145)
       2    1     WINDOW (SORT) (Cost=982 Card=1 Bytes=10145)
       3    2       COUNT (STOPKEY)
       4    3         VIEW (Cost=980 Card=1 Bytes=10145)
       5    4           SORT (ORDER BY) (Cost=980 Card=1 Bytes=10132)
       6    5             WINDOW (SORT) (Cost=980 Card=1 Bytes=10132)
       7    6               WINDOW (SORT) (Cost=980 Card=1 Bytes=10132)
       8    7                 VIEW (Cost=977 Card=1 Bytes=10132)
       9    8                   WINDOW (SORT PUSHED RANK) (Cost=977 Card=1 Bytes=889)
      10    9                     NESTED LOOPS (Cost=976 Card=1 Bytes=889)
      11   10                       HASH JOIN (Cost=305 Card=670 Bytes=18090)
      12   11                         HASH JOIN (Cost=23 Card=140 Bytes=2240)
      13   12                           INDEX (FAST FULL SCAN) OF 'GLCAT_GRP_TO_CAT_PK' (INDEX (UNIQUE)) (Cost=2 Card=52 Bytes=364)
      14   12                           MAT_VIEW ACCESS (FULL) OF 'GLCAT_CAT_TO_MCAT' (MAT_VIEW) (Cost=20 Card=1039 Bytes=9351)
      15   11                         INDEX (FAST FULL SCAN) OF 'PCITEM2GLCATMCAT_FK_IDS' (INDEX) (Cost=281 Card=16903 Bytes=185933)
      16   10                       MAT_VIEW ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'PRD_SEARCH_MVW' (MAT_VIEW) (Cost=1 Card=1 Bytes=862)
      17   16                         INDEX (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'PK_PRD_SEARCH_ID' (INDEX (UNIQUE)) (Cost=0 Card=1)
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            481    recursive calls
              2      db block gets
         195742  consistent gets
           7516  physical reads
              0  redo size
          71567  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
           6629  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
              9  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
             15  sorts (memory)
              1  sorts (disk)
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    There are 20000 micro-categories
    Group to category mapping table has around 1000 records
    Category to microcategory table has around 25000 records
    The product table has around 100,000 products.
    Product to microcategory mapping table has 350000 records
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    SQL-1
    SELECT DECODE(:OPT,2,A.SC,(MAX(A.SC) OVER (PARTITION BY A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY))) AS SO,
         A.SC,                           A.PRD_SEARCH_ID,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_ID,        A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY,            A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANYID_ENCRYPTED,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_PCID,              A.PRD_SEARCH_URL,                A.PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_HOME,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_CLNT_ENABLED,      A.PRD_SEARCH_CODE,               A.PRD_SEARCH_NAME,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_DESC_SMALL,        A.PRD_SEARCH_DESC_DETAILED,      A.PRD_SEARCH_DESC_HTML,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_IMG_SMALL,         A.PRD_SEARCH_IMG_LARGE,          A.PRD_SEARCH_WEIGHT_ITEM,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,      A.PRD_SEARCH_SIZE,               A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1_VALUE,      A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2,             A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2_VALUE,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3,            A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3_VALUE,       A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4_VALUE,      A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5,             A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5_VALUE,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6,            A.PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6_VALUE,       A.PRD_SEARCH_CAT_ID,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_CAT_NAME,          A.PRD_SEARCH_CAT_FLNAME,         A.PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE_ID,A.PRD_SEARCH_CITY,               A.PRD_SEARCH_STATE,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_COUNTRY,           A.PRD_SEARCH_PRICE_SALE,         A.PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE_DESC,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_PHONE,     A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_MOBILE,     A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_FAX,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_EMAIL,     A.PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_MCAT_ID_LIST, A.PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_CAT_ID_LIST,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_GRP_ID_LIST, A.PRD_SEARCH_GL_COUNTRY_ISO,     A.PRD_SEARCH_GLUSR_USR_ID,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_TRUSTSEAL_CODE,    A.PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_ID,        A.PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_NAME,
         A.PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT,   A.PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT_TZ, A.PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_RANK,
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              PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY,            PRD_SEARCH_COMPANYID_ENCRYPTED,
              PRD_SEARCH_PCID,              PRD_SEARCH_URL,                PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_HOME,
              PRD_SEARCH_CLNT_ENABLED,      PRD_SEARCH_CODE,               PRD_SEARCH_NAME,
              PRD_SEARCH_DESC_SMALL,        PRD_SEARCH_DESC_DETAILED,      PRD_SEARCH_DESC_HTML,
              PRD_SEARCH_IMG_SMALL,         PRD_SEARCH_IMG_LARGE,          PRD_SEARCH_WEIGHT_ITEM,
              PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,      PRD_SEARCH_SIZE,               PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2_VALUE,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5_VALUE,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_CAT_ID,
              PRD_SEARCH_CAT_NAME,          PRD_SEARCH_CAT_FLNAME,         PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE,
              PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE_ID,PRD_SEARCH_CITY,               PRD_SEARCH_STATE,
              PRD_SEARCH_COUNTRY,           PRD_SEARCH_PRICE_SALE,         PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE,
              PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE_DESC,
              PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_PHONE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_MOBILE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_FAX,
              PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_EMAIL,     PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_MCAT_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_CAT_ID_LIST,
              PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_GRP_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GL_COUNTRY_ISO,     PRD_SEARCH_GLUSR_USR_ID,
              PRD_SEARCH_TRUSTSEAL_CODE,    PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_NAME,
              PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT,   PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT_TZ, PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_RANK,
              PRD_SEARCH_PC_ITEM_HOTNEW,
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                                  ORDER BY DECODE(:S_MODE,2,1,3,to_number(to_char(PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,'yyyymmdd')),1) DESC) AS RK
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         SELECT
              DECODE(:OPT,2,SC,(MAX(SC) OVER (PARTITION BY PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY))) AS SO,
              SC,                           PRD_SEARCH_ID,
              PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY,            PRD_SEARCH_COMPANYID_ENCRYPTED,
              PRD_SEARCH_PCID,              PRD_SEARCH_URL,                PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_HOME,
              PRD_SEARCH_CLNT_ENABLED,      PRD_SEARCH_CODE,               PRD_SEARCH_NAME,
              PRD_SEARCH_DESC_SMALL,        PRD_SEARCH_DESC_DETAILED,      PRD_SEARCH_DESC_HTML,
              PRD_SEARCH_IMG_SMALL,         PRD_SEARCH_IMG_LARGE,          PRD_SEARCH_WEIGHT_ITEM,
              PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,      PRD_SEARCH_SIZE,               PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2_VALUE,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5_VALUE,
              PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_CAT_ID,
              PRD_SEARCH_CAT_NAME,          PRD_SEARCH_CAT_FLNAME,         PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE,
              PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE_ID,PRD_SEARCH_CITY,               PRD_SEARCH_STATE,
              PRD_SEARCH_COUNTRY,           PRD_SEARCH_PRICE_SALE,         PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE,
              PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE_DESC,
              PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_PHONE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_MOBILE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_FAX,
              PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_EMAIL,     PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_MCAT_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_CAT_ID_LIST,
              PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_GRP_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GL_COUNTRY_ISO,     PRD_SEARCH_GLUSR_USR_ID,
              PRD_SEARCH_TRUSTSEAL_CODE,    PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_NAME,
              PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT,   PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT_TZ, PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_RANK,
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                        SC,PRD_SEARCH_ID,
                        PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY,            PRD_SEARCH_COMPANYID_ENCRYPTED,
                        PRD_SEARCH_PCID,              PRD_SEARCH_URL,                PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_HOME,
                        PRD_SEARCH_CLNT_ENABLED,      PRD_SEARCH_CODE,               PRD_SEARCH_NAME,
                        PRD_SEARCH_DESC_SMALL,        PRD_SEARCH_DESC_DETAILED,      PRD_SEARCH_DESC_HTML,
                        PRD_SEARCH_IMG_SMALL,         PRD_SEARCH_IMG_LARGE,          PRD_SEARCH_WEIGHT_ITEM,
                        PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,      PRD_SEARCH_SIZE,               PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1,
                        PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2_VALUE,
                        PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4,
                        PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5_VALUE,
                        PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_CAT_ID,
                        PRD_SEARCH_CAT_NAME,          PRD_SEARCH_CAT_FLNAME,         PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE,
                        PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE_ID,PRD_SEARCH_CITY,               PRD_SEARCH_STATE,
                        PRD_SEARCH_COUNTRY,           PRD_SEARCH_PRICE_SALE,         PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE,
                        PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE_DESC,
                        PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_PHONE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_MOBILE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_FAX,
                        PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_EMAIL,     PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_MCAT_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_CAT_ID_LIST,
                        PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_GRP_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GL_COUNTRY_ISO,     PRD_SEARCH_GLUSR_USR_ID,
                        PRD_SEARCH_TRUSTSEAL_CODE,    PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_NAME,
                        PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT,   PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT_TZ, PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_RANK,
                        PRD_SEARCH_PC_ITEM_HOTNEW,
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                                  ORDER BY DECODE(:S_MODE,2,1,3,TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,'YYYYMMDD')),1) DESC) AS RK
                   FROM
                             SELECT
                                  DECODE(:S_MODE,2,1,3,TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,'YYYYMMDD')),1) AS SC,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_ID,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY,            PRD_SEARCH_COMPANYID_ENCRYPTED,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_PCID,              PRD_SEARCH_URL,                PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_HOME,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_CLNT_ENABLED,      PRD_SEARCH_CODE,               PRD_SEARCH_NAME,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_DESC_SMALL,        PRD_SEARCH_DESC_DETAILED,      PRD_SEARCH_DESC_HTML,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_IMG_SMALL,         PRD_SEARCH_IMG_LARGE,          PRD_SEARCH_WEIGHT_ITEM,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_MODIFIEDDATE,      PRD_SEARCH_SIZE,               PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_LABEL1_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL2_VALUE,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL3_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_LABEL4_VALUE,      PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5,             PRD_SEARCH_LABEL5_VALUE,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6,            PRD_SEARCH_LABEL6_VALUE,       PRD_SEARCH_CAT_ID,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_CAT_NAME,          PRD_SEARCH_CAT_FLNAME,         PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_NAVIGATION_TREE_ID,PRD_SEARCH_CITY,               PRD_SEARCH_STATE,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_COUNTRY,           PRD_SEARCH_PRICE_SALE,         PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_PC_CLNT_TYPE_DESC,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_PHONE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_MOBILE,     PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_FAX,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_COMPANY_EMAIL,     PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_MCAT_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_CAT_ID_LIST,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_GLCAT_GRP_ID_LIST, PRD_SEARCH_GL_COUNTRY_ISO,     PRD_SEARCH_GLUSR_USR_ID,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_TRUSTSEAL_CODE,    PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_ID,        PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_NAME,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT,   PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_WEIGHT_TZ, PRD_SEARCH_CUSTTYPE_RANK,
                                  PRD_SEARCH_PC_ITEM_HOTNEW,
                                  ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY P.PRD_SEARCH_ID ORDER BY P.PRD_SEARCH_ID) RK1
                             FROM
                                  GLCAT_GRP_TO_CAT G2C, GLCAT_CAT_TO_MCAT C2M, PC_ITEM_TO_GLCAT_MCAT M, PRD_SEARCH P
                             WHERE
                                  G2C.FK_GLCAT_CAT_ID = C2M.FK_GLCAT_CAT_ID
                                  AND C2M.FK_GLCAT_MCAT_ID = M.FK_GLCAT_MCAT_ID
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  • Query Explain Plan Help

    I am running the following query against my database
    SELECT p.ID
      FROM rap_counterparties cou,
           rap_presentation_cou_ratings pcr,
           rap_presentation_states sta,
           rap_app_user_profiles aup,
           rap_presentations p
    WHERE cou.unt_id = aup.unt_id
       AND aup.aur_id = 7529
       AND pcr.cou_id = cou.ID
       AND sta.cur_present_state_instance_flg = 'Y'
       AND sta.state_type_id = pcr.pst_state_type_id
       AND sta.pre_id = pcr.pst_pre_id
       AND sta.state_type_id IN (326, 322, 323, 324, 325)
       AND cou.unt_id = p.unt_id
       AND p.ID = sta.pre_id
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    Explain plan of the query is
    PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
    | Id  | Operation                        |  Name                  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)|
    |   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                 |                        |     8 |   456 |  3936  (16)|
    |*  1 |  TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID     | RAP_PRESENTATIONS      |     1 |    15 |     2  (50)|
    |   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                   |                        |     8 |   456 |  3936  (16)|
    |*  3 |    HASH JOIN                     |                        |  1745 | 73290 |  2145  (27)|
    |*  4 |     HASH JOIN                    |                        | 14257 |   431K|  1299  (25)|
    |*  5 |      HASH JOIN                   |                        |  5173 | 87941 |   583  (16)|
    |   6 |       TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| RAP_APP_USER_PROFILES  |    18 |   144 |     3  (34)|
    |*  7 |        INDEX RANGE SCAN          | RAP_AUP_IX_01          |    18 |       |     2  (50)|
    |   8 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL          | RAP_COUNTERPARTIES     |   118K|  1042K|   560  (13)|
    |*  9 |      INDEX FAST FULL SCAN        | RAP_PCR_PK             |   326K|  4467K|   659  (25)|
    |* 10 |     INDEX FAST FULL SCAN         | RAP_PST_IX_02          |   120K|  1291K|   821  (29)|
    |* 11 |    INDEX RANGE SCAN              | RAP_PRE_PK             |     1 |       |            |
    Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
       1 - filter(("P"."PRIVATE_FLG"<>'Y' OR "P"."CREATED_BY_USER_ID"=10000083 AND
                  "P"."PRIVATE_FLG"='Y') AND "COU"."UNT_ID"="P"."UNT_ID")
       3 - access("STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"="PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID" AND
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       4 - access("PCR"."COU_ID"="COU"."ID")
       5 - access("COU"."UNT_ID"="AUP"."UNT_ID")
       7 - access("AUP"."AUR_ID"=7529)
       9 - filter("PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR
                  "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=324 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=326)
      10 - filter("STA"."CUR_PRESENT_STATE_INSTANCE_FLG"='Y' AND ("STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR
                  "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=324 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR
                  "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=326))
      11 - access("P"."ID"="STA"."PRE_ID")
    Table Row count
    rap_app_user_profiles : 30639
    rap_counterparties : 118583
    rap_presentation_cou_ratings -- 652781
    rap_presentation_states -- 982413
    rap_presentations -- 246145
    Questions
    1. Why is the index not being used on the table rap_counterparties. If I force a hint then the index is being used
    2. Is there a way I can have an index range scan as opposed to the index fast full scan.
    3. This query runs in 3s. Is there anything else I can do to tune this query?
    4. In predicate 9 and 10 the two tables have fast full scan. If the filter of unit generates only a few records why can't those few records be joined with these tables. Why the whole tables are first being scanned and then joined
    Appreciate your response

    Thanks for the suggestions.
    So I tried using the FIRST_ROW HINT and i am getting the nested loops join and it runs fast in 250ms.
    SELECT /*+FIRST_ROWS*/
           p.ID ID
      FROM rap_presentations p,
           rap_counterparties cou,
           rap_presentation_states sta,
           rap_presentation_cou_ratings pcr
    WHERE cou.unt_id IN (
               SELECT prof.unt_id
                 FROM rap_application_users u, rap_app_user_profiles prof
                WHERE u.ID = prof.aur_id AND u.ID = 7529
                      AND prof.aro_id NOT IN (8))
       AND cou.unt_id = p.unt_id
       AND p.ID = sta.pre_id
       AND sta.cur_present_state_instance_flg = 'Y'
       AND sta.state_type_id = pcr.pst_state_type_id
       AND sta.pre_id = pcr.pst_pre_id
       AND pcr.cou_id = cou.ID
       AND (   p.private_flg != 'Y'
            OR (p.private_flg = 'Y' AND p.created_by_user_id = 7529)
       AND sta.state_type_id IN (326, 322, 323, 324, 325)
    Explain plan:
    PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
    | Id  | Operation                           |  Name                         | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)|
    |   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                    |                               |     7 |   434 | 43334   (2)|
    |*  1 |  TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID        | RAP_PRESENTATIONS             |     1 |    15 |     2  (50)|
    |   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                      |                               |     7 |   434 | 43334   (2)|
    |   3 |    NESTED LOOPS                     |                               |  1593 | 74871 | 41699   (2)|
    |   4 |     NESTED LOOPS                    |                               | 13016 |   457K| 15196   (2)|
    |   5 |      NESTED LOOPS                   |                               |  4723 |   101K|   798   (2)|
    |   6 |       VIEW                          | VW_NSO_1                      |    16 |   208 |            |
    |   7 |        SORT UNIQUE                  |                               |    16 |   256 |            |
    |   8 |         NESTED LOOPS                |                               |    16 |   256 |     4  (25)|
    |*  9 |          INDEX UNIQUE SCAN          | RAP_AUR_PK                    |     1 |     5 |     2  (50)|
    |* 10 |          TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| RAP_APP_USER_PROFILES         |    16 |   176 |     3  (34)|
    |* 11 |           INDEX RANGE SCAN          | RAP_AUP_IX_01                 |    18 |       |     2  (50)|
    |  12 |       TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID   | RAP_COUNTERPARTIES            |   295 |  2655 |    50   (2)|
    |* 13 |        INDEX RANGE SCAN             | RAP_COU_IX_02                 |    95 |       |     2  (50)|
    |* 14 |      TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID    | RAP_PRESENTATION_COU_RATINGS  |     3 |    42 |     4  (25)|
    |* 15 |       INDEX RANGE SCAN              | RAP_PCR_IX_03                 |    10 |       |     3  (34)|
    |* 16 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN                | RAP_PST_IX_02                 |     1 |    11 |     3  (34)|
    |* 17 |    INDEX RANGE SCAN                 | RAP_PRE_PK                    |     1 |       |            |
    Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
       1 - filter(("P"."PRIVATE_FLG"<>'Y' OR "P"."PRIVATE_FLG"='Y' AND "P"."CREATED_BY_USER_ID"=7529) AND
                  "COU"."UNT_ID"="P"."UNT_ID")
       9 - access("U"."ID"=7529)
      10 - filter("PROF"."ARO_ID"<>8)
      11 - access("PROF"."AUR_ID"=7529)
      13 - access("COU"."UNT_ID"="VW_NSO_1"."$nso_col_1")
      14 - filter("PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR
                  "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=324 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=326)
      15 - access("PCR"."COU_ID"="COU"."ID")
      16 - access("STA"."PRE_ID"="PCR"."PST_PRE_ID" AND "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"="PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID" AND
                  "STA"."CUR_PRESENT_STATE_INSTANCE_FLG"='Y')
           filter("STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=324 OR
                  "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=326)
      17 - access("P"."ID"="STA"."PRE_ID")
    But my query that runs to get the data has a union with another query and with the change it looks like below
    SELECT /*+FIRST_ROWS*/
           p.ID ID
      FROM rap_presentations p,
           rap_counterparties cou,
           rap_presentation_states sta,
           rap_presentation_cou_ratings pcr
    WHERE cou.unt_id IN (
               SELECT prof.unt_id
                 FROM rap_application_users u, rap_app_user_profiles prof
                WHERE u.ID = prof.aur_id AND u.ID = 7529
                      AND prof.aro_id NOT IN (8))
       AND cou.unt_id = p.unt_id
       AND p.ID = sta.pre_id
       AND sta.cur_present_state_instance_flg = 'Y'
       AND sta.state_type_id = pcr.pst_state_type_id
       AND sta.pre_id = pcr.pst_pre_id
       AND pcr.cou_id = cou.ID
       AND (   p.private_flg != 'Y'
            OR (p.private_flg = 'Y' AND p.created_by_user_id = 7529)
       AND sta.state_type_id IN (326, 322, 323, 324, 325)
    UNION
    SELECT /*+index(pfs)*/
           p.ID ID
      FROM rap_presentations p,
           rap_presentation_states sta,
           rap_facilities f,
           rap_presentation_fac_states pfs
    WHERE f.unt_id IN (
               SELECT prof.unt_id
                 FROM rap_application_users u, rap_app_user_profiles prof
                WHERE u.ID = prof.aur_id AND u.ID = 7529
                      AND prof.aro_id NOT IN (8))
       AND f.unt_id = p.unt_id
       AND p.ID = sta.pre_id
       AND sta.cur_present_state_instance_flg = 'Y'
       AND sta.state_type_id = pfs.pst_state_type_id
       AND sta.pre_id = pfs.pst_pre_id
       AND pfs.fac_id = f.ID
       AND pfs.fac_num = f.num
       AND f.current_facility_instance_flg = 'Y'
       AND (   p.private_flg != 'Y'
            OR (p.private_flg = 'Y' AND p.created_by_user_id = 7529)
       AND sta.state_type_id IN (326, 322, 323, 324, 325)
    Explain plan :
    PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
    | Id  | Operation                          |  Name                  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)|
    |   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                   |                        |     8 |   534 | 14931  (80)|
    |   1 |  SORT UNIQUE                       |                        |     8 |   534 | 14931  (80)|
    |   2 |   UNION-ALL                        |                        |       |       |            |
    |*  3 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID     | RAP_PRESENTATIONS      |     1 |    15 |     2  (50)|
    |   4 |     NESTED LOOPS                   |                        |     7 |   455 |  3728  (17)|
    |*  5 |      HASH JOIN                     |                        |  1542 | 77100 |  2145  (27)|
    |*  6 |       HASH JOIN                    |                        | 12598 |   479K|  1300  (24)|
    |*  7 |        HASH JOIN                   |                        |  4571 |   111K|   584  (16)|
    |*  8 |         TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| RAP_APP_USER_PROFILES  |    16 |   176 |     3  (34)|
    |*  9 |          INDEX RANGE SCAN          | RAP_AUP_IX_01          |    18 |       |     2  (50)|
    |  10 |         NESTED LOOPS               |                        |   118K|  1621K|   561  (13)|
    |* 11 |          INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | RAP_AUR_PK             |     1 |     5 |     2  (50)|
    |  12 |          TABLE ACCESS FULL         | RAP_COUNTERPARTIES     |   118K|  1042K|   560  (13)|
    |* 13 |        INDEX FAST FULL SCAN        | RAP_PCR_PK             |   326K|  4467K|   659  (25)|
    |* 14 |       INDEX FAST FULL SCAN         | RAP_PST_IX_02          |   120K|  1291K|   821  (29)|
    |* 15 |      INDEX RANGE SCAN              | RAP_PRE_PK             |     1 |       |            |
    |  16 |    NESTED LOOPS                    |                        |     1 |    79 | 11201   (2)|
    |  17 |     NESTED LOOPS                   |                        |    75 |  4800 | 11124   (2)|
    |  18 |      NESTED LOOPS                  |                        |   617 | 32701 |  9867   (2)|
    |  19 |       NESTED LOOPS                 |                        |  2104 | 69432 |  5606   (2)|
    |  20 |        NESTED LOOPS                |                        |    16 |   256 |     4  (25)|
    |* 21 |         INDEX UNIQUE SCAN          | RAP_AUR_PK             |     1 |     5 |     2  (50)|
    |* 22 |         TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| RAP_APP_USER_PROFILES  |    16 |   176 |     3  (34)|
    |* 23 |          INDEX RANGE SCAN          | RAP_AUP_IX_01          |    18 |       |     2  (50)|
    |* 24 |        TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | RAP_FACILITIES         |   135 |  2295 |   351   (2)|
    |* 25 |         INDEX RANGE SCAN           | RAP_FAC_IX_02          |  1608 |       |     5  (20)|
    |* 26 |       INDEX RANGE SCAN             | RAP_PFR_PK             |     1 |    20 |     3  (34)|
    |* 27 |      INDEX RANGE SCAN              | RAP_PST_IX_02          |     1 |    11 |     3  (34)|
    |* 28 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID    | RAP_PRESENTATIONS      |     1 |    15 |     2  (50)|
    |* 29 |      INDEX UNIQUE SCAN             | RAP_PRE_PK             |     1 |       |            |
    Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
       3 - filter(("P"."PRIVATE_FLG"<>'Y' OR "P"."PRIVATE_FLG"='Y' AND "P"."CREATED_BY_USER_ID"=7529)
                  AND "COU"."UNT_ID"="P"."UNT_ID")
       5 - access("STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"="PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID" AND
                  "STA"."PRE_ID"="PCR"."PST_PRE_ID")
       6 - access("PCR"."COU_ID"="COU"."ID")
       7 - access("COU"."UNT_ID"="PROF"."UNT_ID")
       8 - filter("PROF"."ARO_ID"<>8)
       9 - access("PROF"."AUR_ID"=7529)
      11 - access("U"."ID"=7529)
      13 - filter("PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR
                  "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=324 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR "PCR"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=326)
      14 - filter("STA"."CUR_PRESENT_STATE_INSTANCE_FLG"='Y' AND ("STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR
                  "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=324 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR
                  "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=326))
      15 - access("P"."ID"="STA"."PRE_ID")
      21 - access("U"."ID"=7529)
      22 - filter("PROF"."ARO_ID"<>8)
      23 - access("PROF"."AUR_ID"=7529)
      24 - filter("F"."CURRENT_FACILITY_INSTANCE_FLG"='Y')
      25 - access("F"."UNT_ID"="PROF"."UNT_ID")
      26 - access("PFS"."FAC_ID"="F"."ID" AND "PFS"."FAC_NUM"="F"."NUM")
           filter("PFS"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR "PFS"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR
                  "PFS"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=324 OR "PFS"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR "PFS"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID"=326)
      27 - access("STA"."PRE_ID"="PFS"."PST_PRE_ID" AND
                  "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"="PFS"."PST_STATE_TYPE_ID" AND "STA"."CUR_PRESENT_STATE_INSTANCE_FLG"='Y')
           filter("STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=322 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=323 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=324
                  OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=325 OR "STA"."STATE_TYPE_ID"=326)
      28 - filter(("P"."PRIVATE_FLG"<>'Y' OR "P"."PRIVATE_FLG"='Y' AND "P"."CREATED_BY_USER_ID"=7529)
                  AND "F"."UNT_ID"="P"."UNT_ID")
      29 - access("P"."ID"="STA"."PRE_ID")
    Question:
    1. When I put the query with the FIRST_ROWS hint in a union with another query, the explain plan reverts back to the older explain plan. how can I avoid it when running by iteslf it runs really quick?
    2. Why is the cost with nested loops more higher? Is it because of statistics?
    2. Does the database parameter db_multiblock_read_count have any affect  on the fast full scan?
    3. I gather statistics using the followin method
    begin
       dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(
          ownname          => 'RAP_OWNER',
          estimate_percent => dbms_stats.auto_sample_size,
          method_opt       => 'for all columns size auto',
          degree           => 7
    end;
    Sometimes I also use the following method
    BEGIN
    dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats( ownname=>'RAP_OWNER',
    METHOD_OPT=>'FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS SIZE SKEWONLY',
    CASCADE=>TRUE, ESTIMATE_PERCENT=>100);
    END;
    Which one is good or should I use both?
    Appreciate your input.

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