Slow index access “COL=:N” where :N is NULL Posted on October 31, 2022 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in CBO, curious, Funny, oracle, query optimizing, SQL, troubleshooting Leave a comment All Oracle specialists know that a predicate X=NULL can never be true and we should use “X is NULL” in such cases. The Oracle optimizer knows about that, so if we create a table like this: Continue reading→