October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
18h 5m
English
CHAPTER 17
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Plan Control
As discussed in Chapter 16 on plan stability, Oracle’s CBO can seem to change plans at random intervals, causing a great deal of frustration. However, these changes are not random at all, and we reviewed the reasons behind plan changes and examined how you can identify when plans change and why they change. This chapter’s focus, as you can probably guess, covers various techniques for controlling execution plans. I probably should say “influencing” instead of “controlling,” because there is really no foolproof method of locking in an execution plan. The tools we have at our disposal to help provide plan stability have ...
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