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Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals

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ISBN-10: 1590596366

ISBN-13: 9781590596364

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jonathan Lewis

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The insights that Jonathan provides into the workings of the cost-based optimizer will make a DBA a better designer, and a Developer a better SQL coder. Both groups will become better troubleshooters-- Thomas Kyte, VP (Public Sector), Oracle Corporation The question, "Why isn't Oracle using my index?" must be one of the most popular (or perhaps unpopular) questions ever asked on the Oracle help forums. You've picked exactly the right columns, you've got them in the ideal order, you've computed statistics, you've checked for null columnsemdash; and the optimizer flatly refuses to use your index unless you hint it. What could possibly be going wrong? If you've suffered the frustration of…    
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Book details

List price: $69.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Apress L. P.
Publication date: 1/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.848

Jonathan Lewis made award-winning documentary films for thirty years. He, his wife and their dog now split their time between a cottage in Oxfordshire and an old motor yacht. This is his second novel.

What do you mean by cost?
Single table selectivity
Simple B-Tree access
The clustering factor
Selectivity issues
Histograms
Bitmap indexes
Query transformation
Join cardinality
Nested loops
Hash joins
Sorting & merge joins
The 10053 trace file