Re: Index access much slower than expected.

  • From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kennethnaim@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 18:43:00 +0200

On 05/19/2011 06:28 PM, Kenneth Naim wrote:

I have an application generated 4 table query that produced explain plan that has an index join of 3 indexes (hash join of 2 indexes hash joined to a third) among the other joins. The 3 indexes are on the same table mdp, it has 55k rows and is 88mb in size, 309 columns, 1200 chained rows.

The query ran for 9+ minutes with the index joins. With a full hint it runs 1:40. I altered the session to disable index joins using the underscore parameter and got an identical plan to the original with just one of the indexes. I expected this to be perform better than the full scan as the predicate returns 2305 rows out of the 55k or 4% however it ran for over 10 minutes. Any ideas on what I should be looking at to figure out why this is happening?

Thanks,

Ken

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Ken,

The query might be more useful than the plan to understand what's going on. And for a start, 309-column tables always leave me with some vague feeling of uneasiness.

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