RE: Performance of MERGE INTO statement
- From: "Hostetter, Jay M" <JHostetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Finn Jorgensen" <finn.oracledba@xxxxxxxxx>, <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:18:38 -0400
Finn - I'm not sure why the optimizer thinks that there is only one row.
I've gathered stats and the NUM_ROWS column shows 3,041,890. There are
presently two partitions on this table. USER_TAB_PARTITIONS shows that
one has 1,078 rows and the other has 4,089,540 rows (it's partitioned by
month and I've been testing it with one month of data).
Dave - I referenced the 9i Datawarehousing Guide (chapter 13) when
setting up the merge statement. I assumed that some of the examples
were on fact tables, but looking back over it I see that may not
necessarily be the case. I'm processing millions of call records per
day. The lowest level of detail in the fact table for the call date is
"day". So I could update the fact table once a day from a staging
table. The tricky part is that some calls span more than one day, so I
can have call records trickle in several days later. This is why I went
with the merge statement, because I may need to update fact records. Of
course, now as I think about it, a few duplicate fact records don't seem
like they would be a problem (although that goes against my instincts
from an OLTP point of view).
Thanks,
Jay
-----Original Message-----
From: Finn Jorgensen [mailto:finn.oracledba@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:47 AM
To: david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Hostetter, Jay M; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Performance of MERGE INTO statement
Jay,
It looks like the optimizer thinks there's only 1 row in the fact table
:
|* 20 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CALL_FACTS | 1 |
66 | 1358 | KEY
I would think that would be why it chooses a FTS. The joins between the
staging table and the dim tables happens before joining to the fact
table and since the staging table has no indexes, those joins has to be
FTS and hash joins.
Finn
On 5/14/08, David Aldridge <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A merge into a fact table is a little unconventional, in my
experience.
> Actually, what's unconventional is the update part of the merge, and
> most fact tables are loaded with a direct path insert operation. Can
> you reconsider your design and find a way of not running the update?
>
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