Thanks everybody for the input. I will put in my efforts to see how best I can understand it. On 12/11/06, Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 08:39 AM 12/11/2006, Shivaswamy Raghunath wrote: >Hello listers. > >I have used histograms to imporve performance drastically on several >earlier occassions on our DSS databases. But recently, it took me >quite a while to determine that by removing histograms, I am able to >run one critical query - the report from which was happened to be of >interest to my CEO - far faster than with histogram. The test query >- involving two tables, one partitioned(60 Million) and another >regular (13 Million), with outer joins, view merging, few aggregate >sorts and sub queries- completes in under 5 sec without histograms >while it takes nearly 17 minutes with histograms. > >Can you tell me where I can look to understand this. Plans are >different, of course. But how CBO fails to evaluate the plan I could >not comprehend. I am in the process of studying Jonathan Lewis >(Chapter 7 & 14) to understand. But any input/insight would greatly >be appreciated. Without more detail I can't tell why the CBO creates the plans that it does. I keep saying, and have been for some time, that histograms are like drugs - for the right "illness" and in the right dosage they can work wonders, but an indiscriminant overdose - aka 'for all columns size {254 | skewonly | auto }' - can kill (performance)". Glad (sort of) to see confirmation. Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l