You were hoping for an uneventful day at work when you notice that you have a critical workload query that is taking much longer to execute than usual, and you...
You were hoping for an uneventful day at work when you notice that you have a critical workload query that is taking much longer to execute than usual, and you can see that it is beginning to affect your service levels. You suspect that it has a sub-optimal execution plan and you need to get it sorted out immediately. Is there a quick and easy way to do that? Automatic SQL plan management can deal with this type of issue without DBA intervention, but what can you do if this...
You were hoping for an uneventful day at work when you notice that you have a critical workload query that is taking much longer to execute than usual, and you can see that it is beginning to...
This is Part 3 of a series on the Oracle Optimizer in the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. It's time to take a...
This is Part 3 of a series on the Oracle Optimizer in the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. It's time to take a look at optimizer hints. Here's our test query: select sum(t1.num), sum(t2.num) from table1 t1 join table2 t2 on (t1.id = t2.id); Executing on an ADW database (using the LOW consumer group) yields this plan: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name...
This is Part 3 of a series on the Oracle Optimizer in the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. It's time to take a look at optimizer hints. Here's our test...
This is Part 2 of a series on the Oracle Optimizer in the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. You can find Part 1 here. In this post, I'm going to cover a...
This is Part 2 of a series on the Oracle Optimizer in the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. You can find Part 1 here. In this post, I'm going to cover a clever optimization included in ADWC: Statistics-Based Query Transformation. I'm sure that you can guess what it is already, but let's take it step-by-step. Consider the following query: SELECT max(sale_value) FROM huge_fact_table; To find MAX, the Oracle Database would normally need to scan all of the rows in the...
This is Part 2 of a series on the Oracle Optimizer in the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. You can find Part 1 here. In this post, I'm going to cover a clever optimization included in...
It's time for some posts on the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud and the enhancements we've made to Statistics Management and the Oracle Optimizer. This...
It's time for some posts on the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud and the enhancements we've made to Statistics Management and the Oracle Optimizer. This is Part 1, and it covers statistics maintenance during bulk load. I'll add links to the other posts when they become available. My scripts on the topic of autonomous are stored in GitHub here. The scripts for this post are here. Statistics and Bulk Loading Consider an empty fact table called FACT1. Let's populate it...
It's time for some posts on the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud and the enhancements we've made to Statistics Management and the Oracle Optimizer. This is Part 1, and it covers...
