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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook
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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

by Ciro Fiorillo
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
11h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Avoiding sorting in set operations: union, minus, and intersect

In this recipe, we will investigate performance-related issues when using set operations, such as UNION, INTERSECT, and MINUS.

Getting ready

We will use the SH schema and a copy of the EMPLOYEES table from the HR schema to do our test. To create the MY_EMPLOYEES table in the SH schema, we will use the following script:

CONNECT / AS SYSDBA
CREATE TABLE sh.MY_EMPLOYEES AS SELECT * FROM hr.EMPLOYEES;

How to do it...

The following steps will demonstrate how to avoid sorting:

  1. Connect to the SH schema and enable tracing:
    CONNECT sh@TESTDB/sh
    SET AUTOT TRACE EXP STAT
    
  2. Execute a query using the UNION operator to show the customers with a credit limit higher than 13000 and the employees with a ...
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