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Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN
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Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN

by Stelios Charalambides
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
9h 37m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 4

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How Skewness Can Make Your Execution Times Variable

Skewness is one of those topics that for some reason is often ignored, or misunderstood. Skewness is an important part of data handling for the cost-based optimizer. It makes a difference as to what the optimizer decides to do. It is so important that Oracle created new features such as Adaptive Cursor Sharing just to handle the consequences of skewness.

Skewness

In this section we are going to look at what skewness is, how it comes about, and how it affects your execution plan. If you handle skewness every day, you’re likely to know immediately what kind of situations are likely to ...

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