Re: Overhead of table with empty partitions

I would also experiment with dynamic sampling to see if the overhead of that is 
offset by improved cardinality estimates


----- Original Message ----
From: John Thompson <jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Overhead of table with empty partitions

Thanks Jonathan.  I'm going to run some tests to see if I can produce the 
results you mentioned.  This is a point of sale database, and queries against 
this table need to be quick and more importantly, consistent.  Thanks again!



On 5/28/08, Jonathan Lewis <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 


The effect will be version dependent, and query dependent.
You may get unlucky on queries that cannot identify a single
partition at optimisation time - leading Oracle to estimate a cardinality as 
the average cardinality implied by having 30
partitions (worst case "real cardinality / 30").


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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Thompson" <jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:57 PM
Subject: Overhead of table with empty partitions



Say I've got a table that's partitioned by day and has 30 days worth of
partitions.  Every 30 days I'll create another 30 days worth of partitions
and drop the previous 30 days worth.  Stats are running everyday so the
thinking is that having 29 or so days worth of empty partitoins will not
cause any SQL performance issues.   Testing has shown this to be the case,
but wanted to see if there's any insight on having many empty partitions.

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