April 1999
Intermediate to advanced
584 pages
23h 17m
English
In order for the cost-based optimizer to function properly, it needs to know the sizes of your database tables and the distribution of data within the columns of those tables. Oracle, unlike some other relational database management systems, does not automatically keep this information. In Oracle, you have to generate the information using the ANALYZE command, which can be used to analyze tables, indexes, and columns, as shown in the following sections. See Chapter 13, for complete syntax.
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