Create a sql statement and execute the same in sqlplus

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Reference no: EM13192822

1. Not having an appropriate index can cause a full table scan while performing the select statement by using a non-index field in the WHERE clause. Such queries will increase the logical read of the table and increase the disk input/output calls, i.e because such SQL statement will performs a row by row search to find the data that a query is looking for. For example consider a SQL statement and execute the same in SQLPLUS with the Explain plan option.

setautotracetraceonly explain

Select * from customer

Where Custlname = 'Dobson';

Execution Plan

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Plan hash value: 2844954298

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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 7 | 910 | 171 (1)| 00:00:03 |

|* 1 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| CUSTOMER | 7 | 910 | 171 (1)| 00:00:03 |

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This query will perform the full table scan on "CUSTOMER" table, because in the where condition we are using the non-index column "CUSTLNAME".

Now consider another example where we use Index column in our where condition.

setautotracetraceonly explain

Select * from customer

Where CustID = 98;

Execution Plan

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Plan hash value: 908218400

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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 130 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |

| 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| CUSTOMER | 1 | 130 | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |

|* 2 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | CUSTOMERPK | 1 | | 0 (0)| 00:00:01 |

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This query will perform the Index unique scan on index "CUSTOMERPK" and will perform the table access by Index rowid. Even we can see the execution time, CPU usage and cost difference between both the queries based on the Index usage.

One of the factor that can cause the problem by having too many index are,

For example consider a table "customerorderitem" in retaildba. This table is modified very often on daily basis, as many customers will be ordering the products or they will be returning the purchased product. If such tables contains too many indexes then this could cause a slow performance problem, i.e. because for every data modification in that table, each index needs to be updated. Which in turn will use more CPU, more memory and more I/O operation. But if any table is modified less often, then having more indexes most likely won't be a problem.

Statistics can be created on tables, indexes columns and as well as on the individual columns. But, if for some reason table or index statistics have not been updated, then this may result in a full table scan. This is because most RDBMS's have query optimizers that use those statistics to figure out if using an index is worth or not. The use of statistic will quickly determine which execution plan might product the fastest and most efficient execution plan.And if those statistics are not available, then the RDBMS may wrongly determine that doing a full table scan is more efficient than using an index.(Larsen,2013)

Reference no: EM13192822

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