Mladen,
“My assumption was that the plans for a single execution are different. I
maybe wrong.”
I was referring to the execution of a single line in the plan.
eg for a nested loop: there will be multiple executions of the plan lines
that hit the joined table (assuming multiple rows in the driving table),
the e-rows represents the number of rows the CBO expects to find on one
iteration.
Assuming one statement execution. A-rows will be the total number of rows
flowing from that row source from the entire execution of the statement. So
you would have to multiply the E-rows by the number of times the line was
hit
Hopefully that’s clearer now
Andy