Update statement performance
- From: Praveen Ramanan <pramanan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:00:42 -0600
Hello All,
I am using oracle 11gr2 on windows server 2008.
This is a test system.Stats are current and archivelog is turned off
temporarily.
I am trying to update a table that has over 1.1 million rows.
I have a simple update statement that does the following. (basically
updates mycolumn when it is null, to somevalue)
update mytable a set a.mycolumn = (select b.mycolumn from
mytable b
where
a.joincolumn = b.joincolumn and
b.anothercol='someval')
where a.mycolumn is null;
The number of rows where mycolumn is null is around 1/5th of the total.
(225000 rows)
The above update statement seems to be running forever.On checking the
explain plan this is what i see.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows |
Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | UPDATE STATEMENT | | 224K|
2630K| 6454M (1)|127:19:43 |
| 1 | UPDATE | mytable | |
| | |
|* 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL |mytable | 224K| 2630K|
6644 (1)| 00:00:01 |
|* 3 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| mytable | 1 | 21 |
28752 (1)| 00:00:03 |
|* 4 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | mytable_someval_INDEX |
874K| | 3318 (1)| 00:00:01 |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------
2 - filter("a"."mycolumn" IS NULL)
3 - filter("b"."joincolumn"=:B1)
4 - access("b"."anothercol"='somecol')
I know i can use CTAS to achieve my task.However i am not sure why updating
a .225 million rows would take hours.
Can my update statement be written more efficiently? (perhaps using merge
update?)
Maybe there is some other bottleneck that I need to look?
Any thoughts would be very well appreciated. Thanks!!!
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