Hi DBAs I have a merge statement that works fine if rows exist in the table. If the table is empty then the MERGE does not work. I assume it is due to since no records MATCH/NOMATCH cannot be determine. This seems like a flaw in this statement. Is this correct? Thanks Rick Cale Database Administrator Team Health, Inc. 865-293-5425 Rick_Cale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Abraham Kurian <kurian24@xxxxxxx To: askdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx om> cc: Sent by: Subject: [askdba] Re: SQL -HELP askdba-bounce@fre elists.org 12/07/2004 11:05 PM Please respond to askdba Is Stats are updated ? what about the amount of data each table in holding ? Regards Kurian On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:49:15 -0800, VuCanDo <vuquyen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Guru, > > I have a SQL statement and run against 2 schemas exactly the same, > but both give me a different explain plan run on same instance 9.2.0.4 > on NT. Schema#2 seem to take longer then schema#1 as you can see. > What's wrong with this SQL? See below: > > select m.score_dt, count(1), sum(paid_amt), sum(allow_amt), > min(overall_score), max(overall_score) > from spy_mart_score m, spy_claim_case c > where m.claim_id = getClaim(c.claim_id) and m.claim_line = > getLine(c.claim_id) AND c.status = 'PEND' AND case_queue = '1' > group by m.score_dt > order by m.score_dt desc; > > Explain plan from SCHEMA#1 is > > FIRST_ROWS SELECT STATEMENT Cost = 22 > > 1.1 SORT GROUP BY > 2.1 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID SPY_SCORE > 3.1 NESTED LOOPS > 4.1 NESTED LOOPS > 5.1 TABLE ACCESS FULL SPY_CLAIM_CASE > 5.2 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID SPY_MART > 6.1 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SPY_MART_K1 > 4.2 INDEX RANGE SCAN SPY_SCORE_K1 > > Explain plan from SCHEMA#2 is > > FIRST_ROWS SELECT STATEMENT Cost = 27169 > > 1.1 SORT GROUP BY > 2.1 NESTED LOOPS OUTER > 3.1 HASH JOIN > 4.1 TABLE ACCESS FULL SPY_CLAIM_CASE > 4.2 TABLE ACCESS FULL SPY_MART > 3.2 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID SPY_SCORE > 4.1 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SPY_SCORE_K1 > > Thanks, > > Vu > >