Transcript Optimizer - Intelligent Data Systems Laboratory

DB Tuning : Chapter 10. Optimizer
이상근
Intelligent Database Systems Lab
School of Computer Science & Engineering
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Center for E-Business Technology
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
Optimizer ?
 Optimizer is like brain of database system
 Optimizer is one of Oracle DBMS processes. It finds the best(?)
execution plan of input SQL query
Optimizer
Query Rewrite
Query Optimizing
Optimizer Select
Rule based Optimizer
SQL Parsing
SELECT * FROM EMP
What we do when we tune :
Helping optimizer to make
better decision
Important factors:
Index, Partition, Parallel
Processing
CLIENT
Cost based Optimizer
Query Execution plan
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Important Tuning Points: SQL Parsing
 Cursor Shared
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In large data warehouse system, it may not be important.
However, OLTP system like web system. 1 second different can
be very significant. We’d better bind variable to share cursor for
the same SQL queries that have different variables
 Shared Pool Size
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Should be enough
 Eliminating useless columns and tables
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Trivial
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More about optimizer
 Rule-based Optimizer
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It has several priority rules in it. Following the rules, it finds the
best execution plan
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Rank 1 : Table Access using ROWID
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Rank 2 : Table Access using Unique Index
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Rank 3 : Table Access using Index
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Rank 4 : Full Table Scan
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Pros
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Developers can choose the execution plan as they want
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If you know how it works, you can use it as you want (of course not
easy)
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Latest version of Oracle Rule-based optimizer use statistics too!
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More about optimizer
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Cost-based Optimizer
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It uses statistics to find the best execution plan
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Analyzing needs to lock tables -> Overhead
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Not as good as we hope
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Can’t be better than the execution plan that people made
Type:
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First Row
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All Rows
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Select * from EMP;
Select count(*) from EMP;
The author doesn’t recommend cost-based optimizer
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We can’t easily guess what the execution plan will be
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Not easy to modify execution plan
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Execution Plan
 The results made by optimizer
 It’s a plan how a SQL will be executed
 How to check out execution plan
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Many ways to do this
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Explain
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Autotrace
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TKPROF Trace
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10046 Trace
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