URGENT HELP Required: Solution to avoid Full table scan for a PL/SQL query

Question

Hi Everyone,
When I checked the EXPLAIN PLAN for the below SQL query, I saw that Full table scans is going on both the tables TABLE_A and TABLE_B
UPDATE TABLE_A a
SET a.current_commit_date =
(SELECT MAX (b.loading_date)
FROM TABLE_B b
WHERE a.sales_order_id = b.sales_order_id
AND a.sales_order_line_id = b.sales_order_line_id
AND b.confirmed_qty > 0
AND b.data_flag IS NULL
OR b.schedule_line_delivery_date >= '23 NOV 2008')
Though the TABLE_A is a small table having nearly 1 lakh records, the TABLE_B is a huge table, having nearly 2 and a half crore records.
I created an Index on the TABLE_B having all its fields used in the WHERE clause. But, still the explain plan is showing FULL TABLE SCAN only.
When I run the query, it is taking long long time to execute (more than 1 day) and each time I have to kill the session.
Please please help me in optimizing this.
Thanks,
Sudhindra

Answer 1

Check the instruction again, you're leaving out information we need in order to help you, like optimizer information.
- Post your exact database version, that is: the result of select * from v$version;
- Don't use TOAD's execution plan, but use
SQL> explain plan for <your_query>;
SQL> select * from table(dbms_xplan.display);(You can execute that in TOAD as well).
Don't forget you need to use the {noformat}{noformat} tag in order to post formatted code/output/execution plans etc.
It's also explained in the instruction.
When was the last time statistics were gathered for table_a and table_b?
You can find out by issuing the following query:select table_name
, last_analyzed
, num_rows
from user_tables
where table_name in ('TABLE_A', 'TABLE_B');
Can you also post the results of these counts;select count(*)
from table_b
where confirmed_qty > 0;
select count(*)
from table_b
where data_flag is null;
select count(*)
from table_b
where schedule_line_delivery_date >= /* assuming you're using a date, and not a string*/ to_date('23 NOV 2008', 'dd mon yyyy');