Archive for the ‘SQL Optimization’ Category

Join Types NL,Hash and Sort-Merge

Click the following link of Sachin for Join Types Nested Loops, Hash and Sort Merge Join Types by Sachin Previously, i copied most of the important points from his post for my own request but now deleting as the author does not like it. Related articles by Zemanta Optimization of Joins

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Optimize Joins and Query Plan Changes

Joins and Query Plans Details of the article can be viewed at ask Tom Below are two queries posted by a user on askTom site. </pre>1) SELECT distinct D.deptno, D.dname FROM dept D, emp E WHERE E.deptno = D.deptno ORDER BY D.deptno; 2) SELECT D.deptno, D.dname FROM dept D WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM [...]

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Basic SQL Performance Diagnosis

Article is based on Randolf’s Post on Basic SQL statement performance diagnosis-HOW TO   The following steps should be taken to gather detailed information about the SQL statement: 1. Gather information about parameters relevant to the optimizer 2. Gather the output of the SQL*Plus AUTOTRACE and TIMING feature when executing your statement 3. Get the [...]

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Creating SQL Tuning Task

DECLARE my_task_name VARCHAR2(30); my_sqltext   CLOB; BEGIN my_sqltext := ‘SELECT a16.mkt_oid mkt_oid,’|| ‘a16.mkt_nm mkt_nm,’|| ‘ a16.mkt_cd mkt_cd,’||’a15.consolidated_brand_nm consolidated_brand_nm,’|| ‘SUM (a11.xp_trx) wjxbfs3′ || ‘FROM  prescrip_sales a11 JOIN month a12  ON (a11.mo_id = a12.mo_id)’|| ‘JOIN zzmq00 pa13 ON (a12.mo_oid = pa13.mo_oid)  JOIN  d_product a14 ON (a11.src_prod_oid = a14.src_prod_oid)  ‘GROUP BY a16.mkt_oid,         a16.mkt_nm, a16.mkt_cd, a15.consolidated_brand_nm, a18.spec_group_oid, a18.spec_group_nm, pa13.mo_oid, pa13.mo_disp’; [...]

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SQL optimization using Oracle Hints

ORACLE HINT REFERENCE       PARALLEL Scanning full table with parallel degree of 8. Parallel always assumes full table scan. SELECT /*+ FULL(hr_emp) PARALLEL(hr_emp, 8 ) */ last_name FROM employees hr_emp;   PARALLEL_INDEX The PARALLEL_INDEX hint instructs the optimizer to use the specified number of concurrent servers to parallelize index range scans for partitioned [...]

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