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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, santhosh.

Asked: July 15, 2016 - 12:38 pm UTC

Last updated: August 08, 2016 - 4:57 am UTC

Version: Oracle 11g

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Hi Tom,

Please have a look:

Below are the 2 queries with the same result set but differing in the cost.

When i used scalar sub query instead of inner join its cost is low when compared with the other.

Could you please explain.

Please use the notepad to open the explain plan:

SELECT * FROM (
SELECT
(SELECT A.SRVCR_LOAN_ID FROM ACCT A WHERE A.ACCT_KY= CR.ACCT_KY) AS SRVCR_ID,
(SELECT MA.FUND_DT FROM MRTG_AGREE MA WHERE MA.ACCT_KY=CR.ACCT_KY AND MA.FUND_DT>'17-SEP-2015' ) AS FUND_DATE,
CR.CR_RPSTR_ID,
CRD.CR_RPSTR_DESC
FROM CR_RPT CR
INNER JOIN CR_RPSTR_NM_DMN_LIST CRD
ON CR.CR_RPSTR_ID=CRD.CR_RPSTR_ID
)WHERE FUND_DATE IS NOT NULL;


SQL_ID fnbu1vj8kcf0r, child number 0
-------------------------------------
SELECT /*TOM*/* FROM ( SELECT (SELECT A.SRVCR_LOAN_ID FROM ACCT A
WHERE A.ACCT_KY= CR.ACCT_KY) AS SRVCR_ID, (SELECT MA.FUND_DT FROM
MRTG_AGREE MA WHERE MA.ACCT_KY=CR.ACCT_KY AND MA.FUND_DT>'17-SEP-2015'
) AS FUND_DATE, CR.CR_RPSTR_ID, CRD.CR_RPSTR_DESC FROM CR_RPT CR
INNER JOIN CR_RPSTR_NM_DMN_LIST CRD ON CR.CR_RPSTR_ID=CRD.CR_RPSTR_ID
)WHERE FUND_DATE IS NOT NULL

Plan hash value: 3090924610


| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | 56641 (100)| |
| 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| ACCT | 1 | 17 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 2 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PK_ACCT | 1 | | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 3 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| MRTG_AGREE | 1 | 14 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 4 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PK_MRTG_AGREE | 1 | | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 5 | VIEW | | 18M| 1049M| 56641 (1)| 00:11:20 |
|* 6 | HASH JOIN | | 18M| 344M| 56641 (1)| 00:11:20 |
| 7 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CR_RPSTR_NM_DMN_LIST | 4 | 44 | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 8 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CR_RPT | 18M| 154M| 56582 (1)| 00:11:19 |

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

2 - access("A"."ACCT_KY"=:B1)
3 - filter("MA"."FUND_DT">'17-SEP-2015')
4 - access("MA"."ACCT_KY"=:B1)
5 - filter("FUND_DATE" IS NOT NULL)
6 - access("CR"."CR_RPSTR_ID"="CRD"."CR_RPSTR_ID")



56641 is the cost.

Record count is 8485006

SELECT
A.SRVCR_LOAN_ID,
MA.FUND_DT,
CR.CR_RPSTR_ID,
CRD.CR_RPSTR_DESC
FROM
CR_RPT CR
INNER JOIN ACCT A
ON CR.ACCT_KY=A.ACCT_KY
INNER JOIN MRTG_AGREE MA
ON CR.ACCT_KY=MA.ACCT_KY
INNER JOIN CR_RPSTR_NM_DMN_LIST CRD
ON CR.CR_RPSTR_ID=CRD.CR_RPSTR_ID
WHERE MA.FUND_DT>'17-SEP-2015';


SQL_ID 821chz5f2sr7y, child number 0
-------------------------------------
SELECT /*TOM2*/ A.SRVCR_LOAN_ID, MA.FUND_DT, CR.CR_RPSTR_ID,
CRD.CR_RPSTR_DESC FROM CR_RPT CR INNER JOIN ACCT A ON
CR.ACCT_KY=A.ACCT_KY INNER JOIN MRTG_AGREE MA ON
CR.ACCT_KY=MA.ACCT_KY INNER JOIN CR_RPSTR_NM_DMN_LIST CRD ON
CR.CR_RPSTR_ID=CRD.CR_RPSTR_ID WHERE MA.FUND_DT>'17-SEP-2015'

Plan hash value: 2686946992

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost (%CPU)| Time |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | | 100K(100)| |
|* 1 | HASH JOIN | | 8684K| 422M| | 100K (1)| 00:20:10 |
| 2 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CR_RPSTR_NM_DMN_LIST | 4 | 44 | | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 3 | HASH JOIN | | 8684K| 331M| 35M| 100K (1)| 00:20:10 |
| 4 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | ACCT | 1280K| 20M| | 2091 (1)| 00:00:26 |
|* 5 | HASH JOIN | | 8684K| 190M| 15M| 82481 (1)| 00:16:30 |
|* 6 | VIEW | index$_join$_004 | 609K| 8336K| | 7124 (1)| 00:01:26 |
|* 7 | HASH JOIN | | | | | | |
|* 8 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | FUND_DT_IDX | 609K| 8336K| | 1679 (1)| 00:00:21 |
| 9 | INDEX FAST FULL SCAN| PK_MRTG_AGREE | 609K| 8336K| | 3597 (1)| 00:00:44 |
| 10 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CR_RPT | 18M| 154M| | 56582 (1)| 00:11:19 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

1 - access("CR"."CR_RPSTR_ID"="CRD"."CR_RPSTR_ID")
3 - access("CR"."ACCT_KY"="A"."ACCT_KY")
5 - access("CR"."ACCT_KY"="MA"."ACCT_KY")
6 - filter("MA"."FUND_DT">'17-SEP-2015')
7 - access(ROWID=ROWID)
8 - access("MA"."FUND_DT">'17-SEP-2015')



100417 is the cost.

Regards,
Santhosh

and Connor said...

If you look at the first execution plan, notice

filter("FUND_DATE" IS NOT NULL)

appears at line 5. So the optimizer has identified that it can the do the following:

- first join CR_RPT and CR_RPSTR_NM_DMN_LIST
- then apply "FUND_DATE" IS NOT NULL
- and then the two scalar queries

So it is assuming that the two scalar queries will be done on a reduced set of rows (ie, *after* the join, and *after* the fund_date predicate).

In your second query, the optimizer is driving off the tables in a different order, so its quite likely the costs will be different. Don't forget that these are logically *different* queries, because a join must assume that you might be getting lots of rows back from a source, whereas a scalar will only return a single row.

*You* might know that they are the "same" but the optimizer does not. I would also look at seeing whether its estimate of 600k rows for "fund_dt > sep-2015" is reasonable. If not, look at a histogram on that column to give the optimizer better information.

Hope this helps.

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Rajeshwaran, Jeyabal, August 08, 2016 - 3:07 pm UTC

When i used scalar sub query instead of inner join its cost is low when compared with the other.

By default scalar sub-queries are optimized for response time, where as join are optimized for throughput.


demo@ORA11G> set feedback off
demo@ORA11G> drop table t2 purge;
demo@ORA11G> drop table t1 purge;
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> create table t2 as
  2  select a.owner,a.table_name,a.column_name,a.data_type,
  3    rpad('*',80,'*') as datas
  4  from all_tab_columns  a,
  5     all_tables b
  6  where a.table_name = b.table_name
  7  and a.owner = b.owner;
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> create table t1 as select * from all_tables ;
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> alter table t1 add constraint t1_pk
  2  primary key(owner,table_name);
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> alter table t2 add constraint t2_fk
  2  foreign key(owner,table_name)
  3  references t1;
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> create index t2_idx on t2(owner,table_name);
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> begin
  2     dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user,'T1');
  3     dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user,'T2',
  4     method_opt=>'for all indexed columns size 254',
  5     cascade=>true);
  6  end;
  7  /
demo@ORA11G> set feedback on
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> set autotrace traceonly explain
demo@ORA11G> select t1.owner,t1.table_name,max(t2.column_name) cname
  2  from t1, t2
  3  where t1.owner = t2.owner (+)
  4  and t1.table_name = t2.table_name (+)
  5  group by t1.owner,t1.table_name ;

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 3351207033

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation            | Name  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT     |       |   146 |  9636 |    19   (6)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  SORT GROUP BY NOSORT|       |   146 |  9636 |    19   (6)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   MERGE JOIN OUTER   |       |  1414 | 93324 |    19   (6)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    INDEX FULL SCAN   | T1_PK |   153 |  3672 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  4 |    SORT JOIN         |       |  1414 | 59388 |    18   (6)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL| T2    |  1414 | 59388 |    17   (0)| 00:00:01 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   4 - access("T1"."OWNER"="T2"."OWNER"(+) AND
              "T1"."TABLE_NAME"="T2"."TABLE_NAME"(+))
       filter("T1"."TABLE_NAME"="T2"."TABLE_NAME"(+) AND
              "T1"."OWNER"="T2"."OWNER"(+))

demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G> select t1.owner,t1.table_name ,( select max(t2.column_name) from t2
  2  where t1.owner = t2.owner
  3  and t1.table_name = t2.table_name ) cname
  4  from t1 ;

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 3479339389

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                    | Name   | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT             |        |   153 |  3672 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  SORT AGGREGATE              |        |     1 |    42 |            |          |
|   2 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| T2     |     1 |    42 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  3 |    INDEX RANGE SCAN          | T2_IDX |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |  INDEX FULL SCAN             | T1_PK  |   153 |  3672 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   3 - access("T2"."OWNER"=:B1 AND "T2"."TABLE_NAME"=:B2)

demo@ORA11G> set autotrace off
demo@ORA11G>
demo@ORA11G>


Tkprof shows this.

SELECT T1.OWNER,T1.TABLE_NAME,MAX(T2.COLUMN_NAME) CNAME 
FROM
 T1, T2 WHERE T1.OWNER = T2.OWNER (+) AND T1.TABLE_NAME = T2.TABLE_NAME (+) 
  GROUP BY T1.OWNER,T1.TABLE_NAME 


call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Fetch        2      0.00       0.00          0         30          0         153
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
total        4      0.00       0.00          0         30          0         153

Misses in library cache during parse: 1
Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
Parsing user id: 110     (recursive depth: 1)
Number of plan statistics captured: 1

Rows (1st) Rows (avg) Rows (max)  Row Source Operation
---------- ---------- ----------  ---------------------------------------------------
       153        153        153  SORT GROUP BY NOSORT (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=3442 us cost=19 size=9636 card=146)
      1421       1421       1421   MERGE JOIN OUTER (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=4938 us cost=19 size=93324 card=1414)
       153        153        153    INDEX FULL SCAN T1_PK (cr=2 pr=0 pw=0 time=177 us cost=1 size=3672 card=153)(object id 106714)
      1414       1414       1414    SORT JOIN (cr=28 pr=0 pw=0 time=3369 us cost=18 size=59388 card=1414)
      1414       1414       1414     TABLE ACCESS FULL T2 (cr=28 pr=0 pw=0 time=872 us cost=17 size=59388 card=1414)


SELECT T1.OWNER,T1.TABLE_NAME ,( SELECT MAX(T2.COLUMN_NAME) 
FROM
 T2 WHERE T1.OWNER = T2.OWNER AND T1.TABLE_NAME = T2.TABLE_NAME ) CNAME FROM 
  T1 


call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Fetch        2      0.01       0.00          0        172          0         153
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
total        4      0.01       0.00          0        172          0         153

Misses in library cache during parse: 1
Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
Parsing user id: 110     (recursive depth: 1)
Number of plan statistics captured: 1

Rows (1st) Rows (avg) Rows (max)  Row Source Operation
---------- ---------- ----------  ---------------------------------------------------
       153        153        153  SORT AGGREGATE (cr=170 pr=0 pw=0 time=3951 us)
      1414       1414       1414   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID T2 (cr=170 pr=0 pw=0 time=4116 us cost=2 size=42 card=1)
      1414       1414       1414    INDEX RANGE SCAN T2_IDX (cr=47 pr=0 pw=0 time=1964 us cost=1 size=0 card=1)(object id 106715)
       153        153        153  INDEX FULL SCAN T1_PK (cr=2 pr=0 pw=0 time=175 us cost=1 size=3672 card=153)(object id 106714)


But things got changed in 12c, Optimizer has the ability to transform the Scalar sub-queries into joins for Optimal performance.

running the above test in 12c (12.1.0.2) shows up this.

demo@ORA12C> set autotrace traceonly explain
demo@ORA12C> select t1.owner,t1.table_name,max(t2.column_name) cname
  2  from t1, t2
  3  where t1.owner = t2.owner (+)
  4  and t1.table_name = t2.table_name (+)
  5  group by t1.owner,t1.table_name ;

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 3351207033

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation            | Name  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT     |       |   158 |  9322 |    14  (22)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  SORT GROUP BY NOSORT|       |   158 |  9322 |    14  (22)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   MERGE JOIN OUTER   |       |  1492 | 88028 |    14  (22)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    INDEX FULL SCAN   | T1_PK |   162 |  3726 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  4 |    SORT JOIN         |       |  1488 | 53568 |    13  (24)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL| T2    |  1488 | 53568 |    11  (10)| 00:00:01 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   4 - access("T1"."OWNER"="T2"."OWNER"(+) AND
              "T1"."TABLE_NAME"="T2"."TABLE_NAME"(+))
       filter("T1"."TABLE_NAME"="T2"."TABLE_NAME"(+) AND
              "T1"."OWNER"="T2"."OWNER"(+))

demo@ORA12C>
demo@ORA12C> select t1.owner,t1.table_name ,( select max(t2.column_name) from t2
  2  where t1.owner = t2.owner
  3  and t1.table_name = t2.table_name ) cname
  4  from t1 ;

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 1823981746

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation             | Name     | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT      |          |   162 | 35802 |    16  (32)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  MERGE JOIN OUTER     |          |   162 | 35802 |    16  (32)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   INDEX FULL SCAN     | T1_PK    |   162 |  3726 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  3 |   SORT JOIN           |          |   158 | 31284 |    15  (34)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |    VIEW               | VW_SSQ_1 |   158 | 31284 |    13  (24)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     HASH GROUP BY     |          |   158 |  5688 |    13  (24)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |      TABLE ACCESS FULL| T2       |  1488 | 53568 |    11  (10)| 00:00:01 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   3 - access("T1"."OWNER"="ITEM_1"(+) AND "T1"."TABLE_NAME"="ITEM_2"(+))
       filter("T1"."TABLE_NAME"="ITEM_2"(+) AND "T1"."OWNER"="ITEM_1"(+))

demo@ORA12C> set autotrace off
demo@ORA12C>


Tkprof from 12c show this.

SELECT T1.OWNER,T1.TABLE_NAME,MAX(T2.COLUMN_NAME) CNAME 
FROM
 T1, T2 WHERE T1.OWNER = T2.OWNER (+) AND T1.TABLE_NAME = T2.TABLE_NAME (+) 
  GROUP BY T1.OWNER,T1.TABLE_NAME 


call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
Parse        1      0.01       0.00          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Fetch        2      0.00       0.04          0         32          0         162
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
total        4      0.01       0.04          0         32          0         162

Misses in library cache during parse: 1
Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
Parsing user id: 135     (recursive depth: 1)
Number of plan statistics captured: 1

Rows (1st) Rows (avg) Rows (max)  Row Source Operation
---------- ---------- ----------  ---------------------------------------------------
       162        162        162  SORT GROUP BY NOSORT (cr=32 pr=0 pw=0 time=1418 us cost=14 size=9322 card=158)
      1492       1492       1492   MERGE JOIN OUTER (cr=32 pr=0 pw=0 time=1560 us cost=14 size=88028 card=1492)
       162        162        162    INDEX FULL SCAN T1_PK (cr=2 pr=0 pw=0 time=11 us cost=1 size=3726 card=162)(object id 113001)
      1488       1488       1488    SORT JOIN (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=1297 us cost=13 size=53568 card=1488)
      1488       1488       1488     TABLE ACCESS FULL T2 (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=400 us cost=11 size=53568 card=1488)


SELECT T1.OWNER,T1.TABLE_NAME ,( SELECT MAX(T2.COLUMN_NAME) 
FROM
 T2 WHERE T1.OWNER = T2.OWNER AND T1.TABLE_NAME = T2.TABLE_NAME ) CNAME FROM 
  T1 


call     count       cpu    elapsed       disk      query    current        rows
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
Parse        1      0.01       0.00          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Fetch        2      0.00       0.01          0         32          0         162
------- ------  -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------  ----------
total        4      0.01       0.02          0         32          0         162

Misses in library cache during parse: 1
Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
Parsing user id: 135     (recursive depth: 1)
Number of plan statistics captured: 1

Rows (1st) Rows (avg) Rows (max)  Row Source Operation
---------- ---------- ----------  ---------------------------------------------------
       162        162        162  MERGE JOIN OUTER (cr=32 pr=0 pw=0 time=15718 us cost=16 size=35802 card=162)
       162        162        162   INDEX FULL SCAN T1_PK (cr=2 pr=0 pw=0 time=344 us cost=1 size=3726 card=162)(object id 113001)
       158        158        158   SORT JOIN (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=14480 us cost=15 size=31284 card=158)
       158        158        158    VIEW  VW_SSQ_1 (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=14049 us cost=13 size=31284 card=158)
       158        158        158     HASH GROUP BY (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=13809 us cost=13 size=5688 card=158)
      1488       1488       1488      TABLE ACCESS FULL T2 (cr=30 pr=0 pw=0 time=823 us cost=11 size=53568 card=1488)


looking into 10053 trace from 12c database for the Scalar sub-queries got transformed like this.

Final query after transformations:******* UNPARSED QUERY IS *******
SELECT "T1"."OWNER" "OWNER",
  "T1"."TABLE_NAME" "TABLE_NAME",
  "VW_SSQ_1"."MAX(T2.COLUMN_NAME)" "CNAME"
FROM
  (SELECT MAX("T2"."COLUMN_NAME") "MAX(T2.COLUMN_NAME)",
    "T2"."OWNER" "ITEM_1",
    "T2"."TABLE_NAME" "ITEM_2"
  FROM "DEMO"."T2" "T2"
  GROUP BY "T2"."OWNER",
    "T2"."TABLE_NAME"
  ) "VW_SSQ_1",
  "DEMO"."T1" "T1"
WHERE "T1"."OWNER"   ="VW_SSQ_1"."ITEM_1"(+)
AND "T1"."TABLE_NAME"="VW_SSQ_1"."ITEM_2"(+)


You could see the 12c optimizer has transformed the Scalar subquries into an equivalent joins.


thanks for the proof

George Joseph, August 09, 2016 - 6:44 am UTC


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