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Reading explain plan [message #528378] Mon, 24 October 2011 10:11 Go to next message
Kwisatz78
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Hi all

I am very wet behind the ears when it comes to Oracle, however I was able to identify a poorly performing query that seemed to be maxing out our CPU. I have been trying to understand the Explain Plan. The plan below is from our test system which has considerably less information in the tables than our PROD system.

I can see there are a bunch of table scans at the end which may indicate missing indexes, but I am unclear on whether this is actually a problem as the %CPU seems to be worse for the JOIN near the top of the plan.

Can anyone explain(no pun intended) to me how to read the plans and where our issue lies?

Many thanks

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| Id  | Operation                   | Name                    | Rows  | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost (%CPU)| Time     | Inst   |IN-OUT|
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|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT            |                         |  1870M|  3018G|       |   677M  (1)|999:59:59 |        |      |
|   1 |  SORT ORDER BY              |                         |  1870M|  3018G|  3567G|   677M  (1)|999:59:59 |        |      |
|*  2 |   HASH JOIN RIGHT OUTER     |                         |  1870M|  3018G|       | 10031  (93)| 00:02:01 |        |      |
|   3 |    VIEW                     | VW_CUSTDOCUMENTCATEGORY |  1397 |   526K|       |     7  (15)| 00:00:01 |        |      |
|   4 |     REMOTE                  |                         |       |       |       |            |          | DB~    | R->S |
|*  5 |    HASH JOIN RIGHT OUTER    |                         |    22M|    28G|       |   837  (15)| 00:00:11 |        |      |
|   6 |     VIEW                    | VW_CUSTOMCLRNLIST       |  1397 |   387K|       |     7  (15)| 00:00:01 |        |      |
|   7 |      REMOTE                 |                         |       |       |       |            |          | DB~    | R->S |
|*  8 |     HASH JOIN RIGHT OUTER   |                         |   407K|   412M|       |   718   (2)| 00:00:09 |        |      |
|   9 |      VIEW                   | VW_CUSTDOCUMENTTYPE     |  1397 |   526K|       |     7  (15)| 00:00:01 |        |      |
|  10 |       REMOTE                |                         |       |       |       |            |          | DB~    | R->S |
|* 11 |      HASH JOIN RIGHT OUTER  |                         | 20702 |    13M|       |   709   (2)| 00:00:09 |        |      |
|  12 |       VIEW                  | VW_CUSTDOCUMENTLEVEL    |   100 | 38600 |       |     3  (34)| 00:00:01 |        |      |
|  13 |        REMOTE               |                         |       |       |       |            |          | DB~    | R->S |
|* 14 |       HASH JOIN             |                         |  1449 |   411K|       |   706   (1)| 00:00:09 |        |      |
|* 15 |        HASH JOIN            |                         |  1446 |   355K|       |   569   (2)| 00:00:07 |        |      |
|* 16 |         HASH JOIN           |                         |  1549 |   119K|       |   310   (2)| 00:00:04 |        |      |
|  17 |          VIEW               | VW_SQ_1                 | 22690 |   709K|       |   155   (2)| 00:00:02 |        |      |
|  18 |           HASH GROUP BY     |                         | 22690 |   487K|       |   155   (2)| 00:00:02 |        |      |
|  19 |            TABLE ACCESS FULL| REVISIONS               | 23233 |   499K|       |   154   (1)| 00:00:02 |        |      |
|* 20 |          TABLE ACCESS FULL  | REVISIONS               | 23231 |  1066K|       |   154   (1)| 00:00:02 |        |      |
|  21 |         TABLE ACCESS FULL   | DOCMETA                 | 21691 |  3664K|       |   258   (1)| 00:00:04 |        |      |
|* 22 |        TABLE ACCESS FULL    | DOCUMENTS               | 21737 |   827K|       |   137   (1)| 00:00:02 |        |      |
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Re: Reading explain plan [message #528381 is a reply to message #528378] Mon, 24 October 2011 10:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Kwisatz78
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Sorry the formatting has been lost when I posted
Re: Reading explain plan [message #528384 is a reply to message #528381] Mon, 24 October 2011 10:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Kwisatz78 wrote on Mon, 24 October 2011 17:14
Sorry the formatting has been lost when I posted


Please read How to use [code] tags and make your code easier to read.

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Michel
Re: Reading explain plan [message #528385 is a reply to message #528384] Mon, 24 October 2011 10:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Kwisatz78
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Ah sorry, thanks for that.
Re: Reading explain plan [message #529076 is a reply to message #528385] Fri, 28 October 2011 10:21 Go to previous message
Vackar
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Hi,

2 Questions:
1 - What was the original query
2 - What are the filter/access predicates in the explain plan

Thanks,
Vackar
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