Re: Merge statement not using index

If you use "dynamic sql" inside your store procedure to do merge, Oracle
will have to re-parse the statement, and m.b. it'll create "correct"
execution plan using index instead of FTS.
Regards,
Igor Neyman

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Oracle - EE 10.2.0.4
> Platform - IBM zSeries, SLES 10
>
> I have 19 related tables that need to have data archived daily.  If I
> run my merge script manually, it uses the primary key index on all the
> tables, both source and target.  For obvious reasons I want to
> automate the process.  However, when I run the procedure to do the
> merge (so far only one table in the procedure), it does an FTS instead
> of using the pirmary key index.  I read where others had the same
> problem and the suggestion was to use the index hint.  It is ignoring
> my hint.  Due to the size of the majority of these archive tables, an
> FTS is unacceptable.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction for resolving this issue?
> I haven't found anything in the Oracle 10g docs or googling yet that
> has been helpful.
>
> Thanks.
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