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Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Second Edition
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Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Second Edition

by Christian Antognini
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
740 pages
23h 59m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 7

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System Statistics

The query optimizer used to base its cost estimations on the number of physical reads needed to execute SQL statements. That method is known as the I/O cost model. The main drawback of this method is that single-block reads and multiblock reads are equally costly.1 Consequently, multiblock read operations, such as full table scans, are artificially favored. Before system statistics were introduced, especially in OLTP systems, the optimizer_index_caching and optimizer_index_cost_adj initialization parameters were used to work around this problem (see Chapter 9 for coverage of both parameters). In fact, the default values ...

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