I can't speak for JL but basically I think he's basing cost as the optimizer's estimate of IO's to be performed. --- Karen Morton <karen.morton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan also mentioned to me that the cost estimate should be = > multiplied by 'sreadtim' > when running 9i with system statistics (cpu costing) enabled. The cost = > multiplied by this > value is the assumed time to complete. > > Cost is not the time estimate itself and this is what I was trying to = > discern from > Jonathan's earlier post. What I understand Jonathan was trying to say = > was that cost is > the value that should be multiplied by a time value estimate to = > determine the estimated > time to complete. > > The issue I still find for myself is that I rarely see this estimated = > value be reliably > close to the actual value for response time. Perhaps in the perfect = > world, and I guess > that's where the optimizer thinks it lives :), it would. But, even on a = > test database > where I am the only user executing a single query, I don't often see the = > costed time > estimate match the actual. > > I just wish the optimizer was perfect....then again, if that were the = > case, many of us > would have to find other ways to fill our time currently allotted to = > query optimization. > :) > > > > Karen Morton > Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. > http://www.hotsos.com > Upcoming events at http://www.hotsos.com/education/schedule.html > > =20 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 3:23 PM > To: karen.morton@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Which plan is better - what COST really means ? > > > > On 01/14/2005 05:43:53 PM, Karen Morton wrote: > > > In what time measurement is the cost? Seconds, centiseconds, =3D=20 > > microseconds? =3D20 > > The measurements are in centiseconds, that is soft clock ticks. That is = > one of the few > things that wasn't converted to microseconds with =20 > oracle9i > --=20 > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > ===== Connor McDonald Co-author: "Mastering Oracle PL/SQL - Practical Solutions" ISBN: 1590592174 web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk web: http://www.oaktable.net email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx Coming Soon! "Oracle Insight - Tales of the OakTable" "GIVE a man a fish and he will eat for a day. But TEACH him how to fish, and...he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day" ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l