As far as I know explain plan will produce a misleading plan only if:
a) the query uses bind variables - which can't be peeked and are assumed to be
character
or
b) the literals used in the explain plan are a bad choice compared to what
happens in production
(which includes wrong type, wrong character set, wrong implicit date format
etc.)
Using dbms_sql won't (necessarily) be any better. If you supply a statement
with a bind variable in the text the call to dbms_parse will assume that it's
an unknown varchar - just as explain plan will. This is why you sometimes see
systems with lots of statements parsed twice per execute - the first time was a
parse call the that used guesses for bind types, the second was with
information about the actual bind types.
(I have an odd note from 16 years ago that you don't get the plan on the call
to dbms_parse, but have to call dbms_describe_colums as well).
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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Subject: Explain Plan and Security
Hi,
you might know Kerry´s classic blog:
http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/2008/10/explain-plan-lies/.
Normally my work around for explain plan issues is to run the query and use
dbms_xplan.display_cursor.
Now I am working in an environment where I must not run a query, but I can do
explain plan.
But still I think I can not tolerate explain plan weaknesses.
I think it should be possble to use DBMS_SQL to parse a statement and receive a
proper plan without actually running the statement.
Then use dbms_xplan.display_cursor.
Before I spent time, has anybody done it already?
Regards
Lothar
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