RE: Re: Explain plan accuracy and bind variables

  • From: "Cary Millsap" <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:31:42 -0600

Nevermind; I've done it.


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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cary Millsap
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:02 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Re: Explain plan accuracy and bind variables

Can someone provide an example of a query that emits STAT lines that
contradict the output of EXPLAIN PLAN because of the use of bind
variables?


Cary Millsap
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:37 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Re: Explain plan accuracy and bind variables

what about autotrace? that occurs after the query is run? =

> =

> From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/02/06 Fri AM 08:18:49 EST
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Explain plan accuracy and bind variables
> =

> I think this comes the various methods people use to take an existing
S=
QL and attempt to determine
> an explain plan.
> =

> eg you might see in a trace file a slow query
> =

> select * from table where col =3D :b1
> =

> You run this through explain plan and voila! Looks great - no problem.
=
 But what really happened
> on the live system was that 'col' was char, and :b1 was numeric, and
th=
us the index on 'col' was
> not used.  The execution plan in a trace file *will* be the one that
wa=
s used.  This is quite
> different to the plan you would see if you ran 'tkprod explain=3D..'
> =

> etc etc etc
> =

> hth
> connor
> =

>  --- ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx wrote: > I read somewhere that explain plans
=
are not always accurate.
> Does this include autotrace? What
> > about if I do a 10046 or just a sql_trace? =

> > =

> > Are explain plans more apt to be inaccurate with bind variables(I
thi=
nk I read that somewhere).
> > If so, why? =

> > =

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