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How to Read an Execution Plan

Chris
December 06, 2019

How to Read an Execution Plan

Chris

December 06, 2019
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  1. Your SQL Office Hours session will begin soon… How to

    Read an Execution Plan Chris Saxon @ChrisRSaxon & @SQLDaily https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicofSQL https://blogs.oracle.com/sql
  2. SQL is awesome but… Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its

    affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  3. How the #@!% do I make it faster?! Copyright ©

    2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  4. Look at the execution plan Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or

    its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Ryan McGuire / Gratisography
  5. someone confused/frustrated – how does that help me?! How the

    #@%$ does that help? Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Ryan McGuire / Gratisography
  6. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | HASH JOIN | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  7. someone confused/frustrated – how does that help me?! Those don't

    look like directions… Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Ryan McGuire / Gratisography
  8. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | HASH JOIN | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon How do we draw the arrows on this?
  9. Tree picture An execution plan is a tree Copyright ©

    2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  10. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | HASH JOIN | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  11. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 |SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 |HASH JOIN | | | 2 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 3 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  12. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | HASH JOIN | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Parent Children
  13. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | HASH JOIN | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Parent Sibling
  14. Following an Execution Plan Go to the first unvisited leaf

    Go to its parent Repeat! 1 2 3 Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Depth-first search!
  15. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | HASH JOIN | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  16. | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 |

    HASH JOIN | | | 2 | HASH JOIN | | | 3 | HASH JOIN | | | 4 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| COLOURS | | 5 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| TOYS | | 6 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | PENS | | 7 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | BRICKS | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  17. | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 |

    SORT ORDER BY | | | 2 | HASH GROUP BY | | | 3 | HASH JOIN | | | 4 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | COLOURS | | 5 | VIEW | | | 6 | UNION-ALL | | | 7 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | | 8 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| TOYS | | 9 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| PENS | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  18. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | COLOURS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  19. select ( select count(*) from bricks b where b.colour =

    c.colour ) brick# from colours c; Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  20. -------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | -------------------------------------- |

    0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | | 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| BRICKS | | 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | COLOURS | -------------------------------------- Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  21. someone confused/frustrated – how does that help me?! But how

    do I make it faster?! Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Ryan McGuire / Gratisography
  22. Plan Tuning Questions Row Estimates Are they accurate? I/O Reads

    How much work did we do? Access Methods Can we read the rows more efficiently? Step Duration How long did each operation take? Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  23. DBMS_XPlan set serveroutput off select /*+ gather_plan_statistics */... from ...;

    select * from table ( dbms_xplan.display_cursor ( null, null, 'ALLSTATS LAST' ) ); Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  24. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  25. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon How many times did we do this?
  26. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon How many rows did it think we'd get…
  27. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon …how many rows did we really get?
  28. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon How long did it take?
  29. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon How much work did we do?
  30. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Step specific
  31. --------------------------------------------------- | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows | A-Time |

    Buffers | --------------------------------------------------- | 1 | | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 68 | 56 |00:00:00.01 | 24 | | 1 | 8 | 7 |00:00:00.01 | 18 | | 1 | 4 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 12 | | 1 | 3 | 3 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 5 | 5 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 9 | 9 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | | 1 | 24 | 24 |00:00:00.01 | 6 | Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon Cumulative
  32. Where do I go from here? Learn how to get

    a plan Get the scripts Start playing! 1 2 3 http://bit.ly/exec-plan http://bit.ly/plan-scripts Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. blogs.oracle.com/sql www.youtube.com/c/TheMagicOfSQL @ChrisRSaxon
  33. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

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