This is puzzling me a change from NL to HASH (by using USE_HASH) then plan changed which is obvious but also the stats? TUH_NVPAGINA which has over 2000 million of rows now shows correct estimation under HASH but showed a miserable 6 million using NL. What is causing this? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost | Pstart| Pstop | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 934 | 49502 | 1022K| | | | 1 | SORT GROUP BY | | 934 | 49502 | 1022K| | | | 2 | NESTED LOOPS | | 182M| 9213M| 814K| | | |* 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | TUD_FEDIA | 30 | 480 | 3 | | | | 4 | PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR| | | | | KEY | KEY | |* 5 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | TUH_NVPAGINA | 5992K| 211M| 27159 | KEY | KEY | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 3 - filter("TUD_FEDIA"."ID_MES"=TO_NUMBER(:Z)) 5 - filter("TUH_NVPAGINA"."FE_DIA"="TUD_FEDIA"."FE_DIA") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost | Pstart| Pstop | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 934 | 49502 | 1555K| | | | 1 | SORT GROUP BY | | 934 | 49502 | 1555K| | | |* 2 | HASH JOIN | | 182M| 9213M| 1347K| | | |* 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | TUD_FEDIA | 30 | 480 | 3 | | | | 4 | PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR| | | | | KEY | KEY | | 5 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | TUH_NVPAGINA | 2163M| 74G| 1330K| KEY | KEY | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 2 - access("TUH_NVPAGINA"."FE_DIA"="TUD_FEDIA"."FE_DIA") 3 - filter("TUD_FEDIA"."ID_MES"=TO_NUMBER(:Z)) On 1/30/07, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alex, For the basics of understanding Oracle explain plans, there are some pretty good resources on the web. A quick Google found the following, which on first glance provides a good start. http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_interpreting_explain_plan.html Once you get the basics under your belt, there are some experts on this list that can help answer your more specific questions. Dennis Williams