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SQL*Plus tips #9: Reading traces and incident files

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in diagnostic event 10046, oracle, SQL*Plus, SQL*PLus tips, trace, troubleshooting 2,632 Page views Leave a comment

@tracefile_read_last_by_mask filemask [regexp] [ignore_regexp]
– finds last trace by filemask and filters rows by regexp and filters out rows by ignore_regexp:

@ tracefile_by_mask.sql [mask] – finds and shows last 10 trace files by mask

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Oracle diagnostic events — Cheat sheet

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in diagnostic event 10046, oracle, statistics, trace, troubleshooting, undocumented 9,237 Page views Leave a comment

Oracle diagnostic events is a great feature, but unfortunately poorly documented and nonintuitive, so it’s difficult to remember all events/actions/parameters and even read its internal documentation using oradebug. So I decided to compile its internal doc as a more convenient html-version (https://orasql.org/files/events/) and make a cheat sheet of some unknown or little-known use cases.

Example 1:

alter system set events 
   'kg_event[1476]
        {occurence: start_after 1, end_after 3}
            trace("stack is: %\n", shortstack())
            errorstack(2)
    ';
  1. kg_event[errno] – Kernel Generic event in library Generic for error number events, which instructs to trace ORA-errno errors;
  2. {occurence: start_after X, end_after Y} – is a filter, which instructs to skip X event checks and trace just Y times;
  3. trace(format, str1, str2, …, str15) – is a function from ACTIONS for printing into a trace file;
  4. shortstack() – is a function from ACTIONS , which returns a short call stack as a string;
  5. errorstack(level) – is a function from ACTIONS, which prints extended info (level: 0 – errorstack only, 1 – errorstack + call stack, 2 – as level 1 + processtate, 3 – as level 2 + context area). You can get more details with  PROCESSSTATE or SYSTEMSTATE. If you need just a call stack, you can use CALLSTACK(level) , with function arguments in case of level>1.

Example 2:

alter system set events 
    'trace[SQL_Compiler.* | SQL_Execution.*]
        [SQL: ...]
            {process: ospid = ...}
            {occurence:end_after 3}
                controlc_signal()';
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Simple function returning Parallel slave info

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in oracle, parallel, query optimizing, SQL, statistics, troubleshooting 1,581 Page views Leave a comment

You can add also any information from v$rtsm_sql_plan_monitor if needed

create or replace function px_session_info return varchar2 parallel_enable as
   vSID int;
   res varchar2(30);
begin
   vSID:=userenv('sid');
   select 
           to_char(s.server_group,'fm000')
    ||'-'||to_char(s.server_set,'fm0000')
    ||'-'||to_char(s.server#,'fm0000')
    ||'('||s.sid||','||s.degree||'/'||s.req_degree||')'
    into res
   from v$px_session s 
   where s.sid=vSID;
   return res;
exception when no_data_found then
   return 'no_parallel';
end;
/

Simple example:

select--+ parallel
  px_session_info, count(*)
from sys.obj$
group by px_session_info
/
PX_SESSION_INFO           COUNT(*)
------------------------  --------
001-0002-0001(630,2/2)     38298
001-0002-0002(743,2/2)     34706
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Smart Scan and Recursive queries

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Roger MacNicol Posted in adaptive serial direct path reads, CBO, hints, oracle, parallel, SmartScan, trace, troubleshooting 1,669 Page views Leave a comment

Since Christmas I have been asked to investigate two different “failures to use Smart Scan”. It turns out they both fell into the same little known restriction on the use of Direct Read. Smart Scan critically depends on Direct Read in order to read the synthetic output blocks into private buffers in PGA so with Direct Read disabled Smart Scan is also disabled. In these two cases the restriction is on using Direct Read on Serial Recursive queries.

Case 1: Materialized View Refresh

A customer asked me to investigate why his MView refresh was running slowly and was failing to use Smart Scan. He had used 'trace[NSMTIO] disk=highest' which showed the cause as:

Direct Read for serial qry: disabled(::recursive_call::kctfsage:::)
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Just short note for myself: OJPPD limitations

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in CBO, collect, oracle, SQL, troubleshooting 1,554 Page views Leave a comment

As of Oracle 19c OJPPD doesn’t support connect-by and TABLE():

OJPPD: OJPPD bypassed: query block contains START WITH/CONNECT BY.
OJPPD: OJPPD bypassed: View contains TABLE expression.
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Reading and analyzing trace file contents using just SQL

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in 12.2, oracle, trace, troubleshooting 1,667 Page views Leave a comment

Simple example: tracefiles for the last 5 days:

select fc.* 
from v$diag_trace_file f
     join v$diag_trace_file_contents fc
          on f.adr_home=fc.adr_home
          and f.trace_filename=fc.trace_filename
where f.modify_time >= systimestamp - interval'5' minute
  and fc.timestamp  >= systimestamp - interval'5' minute
  and fc.component_name = 'SQL_Trace'
  --and fc.section_name like 'kests%'
  ;
--or:
select tr.*
  from v$diag_app_trace_file tf,
       v$diag_sql_trace_records tr
 where tf.sql_trace = 'Y'
   and tf.modify_time > systimestamp - interval'5'minute
   and tr.adr_home = tf.adr_home
   and tr.trace_filename = tf.trace_filename
   and tr.timestamp > systimestamp - interval'5'minute;
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Workarounds for JPPD with view and table(kokbf$), xmltable or json_table functions

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in CBO, oracle, query optimizing, SQL, troubleshooting 2,152 Page views Leave a comment

You may know that table() (kokbf$ collection functions), xmltable and json_table functions block Join-Predicate PushDown(JPPD).

Simple example:

DDL

[sourcecode language=”sql”]
create table xtest(a, b, c) as
select mod(level,1000),level,rpad(‘x’,100,’x’)
from dual
connect by level<=1e4
/
create index itest on xtest(a)
/
create or replace view vtest as
select a,count(b) cnt
from xtest
group by a
/
call dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user,’xtest’);
/
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select distinct v.* 
from table(sys.odcinumberlist(1,2,3)) c, vtest v
where v.a = c.column_value;

Plan hash value: 699667151

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                               | Name  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                        |       |     1 |    19 |    80   (4)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  HASH UNIQUE                            |       |     1 |    19 |    80   (4)| 00:00:01 |
|*  2 |   HASH JOIN                             |       |     1 |    19 |    79   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|       |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |    VIEW                                 | VTEST |  1000 | 17000 |    49   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     HASH GROUP BY                       |       |  1000 |  8000 |    49   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |      TABLE ACCESS FULL                  | XTEST | 10000 | 80000 |    48   (0)| 00:00:01 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   2 - access("V"."A"=VALUE(KOKBF$))

same for json_table

[sourcecode language=”sql”]
select/*+ cardinality(c 1) use_nl(v) push_pred(v) */ *
from json_table(‘{"a":[1,2,3]}’, ‘$.a[*]’ COLUMNS (a int PATH ‘$’)) c
,vtest v
where c.a = v.a;

Plan hash value: 664523328

——————————————————————————–
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
——————————————————————————–
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 28 | 78 (2)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 28 | 78 (2)| 00:00:01 |
| 2 | JSONTABLE EVALUATION | | | | | |
|* 3 | VIEW | VTEST | 1 | 26 | 49 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 4 | SORT GROUP BY | | 1000 | 8000 | 49 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 5 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | XTEST | 10000 | 80000 | 48 (0)| 00:00:01 |
——————————————————————————–

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
—————————————————

3 – filter("V"."A"="P"."A")

Hint Report (identified by operation id / Query Block Name / Object Alias):
Total hints for statement: 1 (U – Unused (1))
—————————————————————————

1 – SEL$F534CA49 / V@SEL$1
U – push_pred(v)
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same for xmltable

[sourcecode language=”sql”]
select/*+ leading(c v) cardinality(c 1) use_nl(v) push_pred(v) */ v.*
from xmltable(‘(1,3)’ columns a int path ‘.’) c,vtest v
where c.a = v.a(+);

Plan hash value: 564839666

————————————————————————————————————
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
————————————————————————————————————
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 28 | 78 (2)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 28 | 78 (2)| 00:00:01 |
| 2 | COLLECTION ITERATOR PICKLER FETCH| XQSEQUENCEFROMXMLTYPE | 1 | 2 | 29 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 3 | VIEW | VTEST | 1 | 26 | 49 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 4 | SORT GROUP BY | | 1000 | 8000 | 49 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 5 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | XTEST | 10000 | 80000 | 48 (0)| 00:00:01 |
————————————————————————————————————

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
—————————————————

3 – filter("V"."A"(+)=CAST(TO_NUMBER(SYS_XQ_UPKXML2SQL(SYS_XQEXVAL(VALUE(KOKBF$),0,0,54525952,0),
50,1,2)) AS int ))

Hint Report (identified by operation id / Query Block Name / Object Alias):
Total hints for statement: 1 (U – Unused (1))
—————————————————————————

1 – SEL$6722A2F6 / V@SEL$1
U – push_pred(v)
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And compare with this:

create global temporary table temp_collection(a number);

insert into temp_collection select * from table(sys.odcinumberlist(1,2,3));

select/*+ cardinality(c 1) no_merge(v) */
   distinct v.* 
from temp_collection c, vtest v
where v.a = c.a;

Plan hash value: 3561835411

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                                | Name            | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                         |                 |     1 |    26 |    41   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  HASH UNIQUE                             |                 |     1 |    26 |    41   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                           |                 |     1 |    26 |    40   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    TABLE ACCESS FULL                     | TEMP_COLLECTION |     1 |    13 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |    VIEW PUSHED PREDICATE                 | VTEST           |     1 |    13 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  5 |     FILTER                               |                 |       |       |            |          |
|   6 |      SORT AGGREGATE                      |                 |     1 |     8 |            |          |
|   7 |       TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID BATCHED| XTEST           |    10 |    80 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  8 |        INDEX RANGE SCAN                  | ITEST           |    10 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   5 - filter(COUNT(*)>0)
   8 - access("A"="C"."A")

You can see that JPPD works fine in case of global temporary tables and, obviously, the first workaround is to avoid such functions with complex views.
But in such simple queries you have 2 other simple options:
1. you can avoid JPPD and get optimal plans using CVM(complex view merge) by just simply rewriting the query using IN or EXISTS:

select * 
from vtest v
where v.a in (select/*+ cardinality(c 1) */ c.* from table(sys.odcinumberlist(1,2,3)) c);

Plan hash value: 1474391442

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                                 | Name  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                          |       |    10 |   100 |    42   (5)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  SORT GROUP BY NOSORT                     |       |    10 |   100 |    42   (5)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                            |       |    10 |   100 |    41   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    NESTED LOOPS                           |       |    10 |   100 |    41   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     SORT UNIQUE                           |       |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |      COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|       |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  6 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN                      | ITEST |    10 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   7 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID            | XTEST |    10 |    80 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   6 - access("A"=VALUE(KOKBF$))

the same with json_table and xmltable

[sourcecode language=”sql”]
select *
from vtest t
where t.a in (select/*+ cardinality(v 1) */ v.a from json_table(‘{"a":[1,2,3]}’, ‘$.a[*]’ COLUMNS (a int PATH ‘$’)) v);

Plan hash value: 2910004067

—————————————————————————————
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
—————————————————————————————
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 10 | 100 | 42 (5)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | SORT GROUP BY NOSORT | | 10 | 100 | 42 (5)| 00:00:01 |
| 2 | NESTED LOOPS | | 10 | 100 | 41 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 3 | NESTED LOOPS | | 10 | 100 | 41 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 4 | SORT UNIQUE | | | | | |
| 5 | JSONTABLE EVALUATION | | | | | |
|* 6 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | ITEST | 10 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 7 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| XTEST | 10 | 80 | 11 (0)| 00:00:01 |
—————————————————————————————

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
—————————————————

6 – access("A"="P"."A")

select v.*
from vtest v
where exists(select/*+ cardinality(c 1) */ 1 from xmltable(‘(1,3)’ columns a int path ‘.’) c where c.a = v.a);

Plan hash value: 1646016183

—————————————————————————————————————
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time |
—————————————————————————————————————
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 10 | 100 | 42 (5)| 00:00:01 |
| 1 | SORT GROUP BY NOSORT | | 10 | 100 | 42 (5)| 00:00:01 |
| 2 | NESTED LOOPS | | 10 | 100 | 41 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 3 | NESTED LOOPS | | 10 | 100 | 41 (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 4 | SORT UNIQUE | | 1 | 2 | 29 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 5 | COLLECTION ITERATOR PICKLER FETCH| XQSEQUENCEFROMXMLTYPE | 1 | 2 | 29 (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 6 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | ITEST | 10 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 7 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | XTEST | 10 | 80 | 11 (0)| 00:00:01 |
—————————————————————————————————————

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
—————————————————

6 – access("A"=CAST(TO_NUMBER(SYS_XQ_UPKXML2SQL(SYS_XQEXVAL(VALUE(KOKBF$),0,0,54525952,0),50,1,2)) AS int ))
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2. Avoid JPPD using lateral():

select/*+ cardinality(c 1) no_merge(lat) */
   distinct lat.* 
from table(sys.odcinumberlist(1,2,3)) c, 
     lateral(select * from vtest v where v.a = c.column_value) lat;

Plan hash value: 18036714

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                               | Name            | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                        |                 |    10 |   190 |    41   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  HASH UNIQUE                            |                 |    10 |   190 |    41   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                          |                 |    10 |   190 |    40   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|                 |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |    VIEW                                 | VW_LAT_4DB60E85 |    10 |   170 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     SORT GROUP BY                       |                 |    10 |    80 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |      TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID BATCHED| XTEST           |    10 |    80 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  7 |       INDEX RANGE SCAN                  | ITEST           |    10 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   7 - access("A"=VALUE(KOKBF$))

Let’s see a bit more complex query:

Test tables 2

[sourcecode language=”sql”]
create table xtest1(id primary key, a) as
select level,level from dual connect by level<=1000;

create table xtest2(a, b, c) as
select mod(level,1000),level,rpad(‘x’,100,’x’)
from dual
connect by level<=1e4
/
create index itest2 on xtest2(a)
/
create or replace view vtest2 as
select a,count(b) cnt
from xtest2
group by a
/
[/sourcecode]

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select v.* 
from xtest1 t1,
     vtest2 v
where t1.id in (select/*+ cardinality(c 1) */ * from table(sys.odcinumberlist(1,2,3)) c)
  and v.a = t1.a;

Plan hash value: 4293766070

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                                  | Name         | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                           |              |     1 |    36 |    80   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|*  1 |  HASH JOIN                                 |              |     1 |    36 |    80   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   JOIN FILTER CREATE                       | :BF0000      |     1 |    10 |    31   (4)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    NESTED LOOPS                            |              |     1 |    10 |    31   (4)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     NESTED LOOPS                           |              |     1 |    10 |    31   (4)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |      SORT UNIQUE                           |              |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |       COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|              |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  7 |      INDEX UNIQUE SCAN                     | SYS_C0026365 |     1 |       |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   8 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID            | XTEST1       |     1 |     8 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   9 |   VIEW                                     | VTEST2       |  1000 | 26000 |    49   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|  10 |    HASH GROUP BY                           |              |  1000 |  8000 |    49   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|  11 |     JOIN FILTER USE                        | :BF0000      | 10000 | 80000 |    48   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 12 |      TABLE ACCESS FULL                     | XTEST2       | 10000 | 80000 |    48   (0)| 00:00:01 |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   1 - access("V"."A"="T1"."A")
   7 - access("T1"."ID"=VALUE(KOKBF$))
  12 - filter(SYS_OP_BLOOM_FILTER(:BF0000,"A"))

As you see, CVM can’t help in this case, but we can use lateral():

select/*+ no_merge(lat) */ lat.* 
from xtest1 t1,
     lateral(select * from vtest2 v where v.a = t1.a) lat
where t1.id in (select/*+ cardinality(c 1) */ * from table(sys.odcinumberlist(1,2,3)) c);

Plan hash value: 1798023704

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                                | Name            | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                         |                 |    10 |   360 |    42   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  NESTED LOOPS                            |                 |    10 |   360 |    42   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                           |                 |     1 |    10 |    31   (4)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    SORT UNIQUE                           |                 |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     COLLECTION ITERATOR CONSTRUCTOR FETCH|                 |     1 |     2 |    29   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID           | XTEST1          |     1 |     8 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  6 |     INDEX UNIQUE SCAN                    | SYS_C0026365    |     1 |       |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   7 |   VIEW                                   | VW_LAT_A18161FF |    10 |   260 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   8 |    SORT GROUP BY                         |                 |    10 |    80 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   9 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID BATCHED  | XTEST2          |    10 |    80 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 10 |      INDEX RANGE SCAN                    | ITEST2          |    10 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   6 - access("T1"."ID"=VALUE(KOKBF$))
  10 - access("A"="T1"."A")

There is also another workaround with non-documented “precompute_subquery” hint:

select v.* 
from xtest1 t1,
     vtest2 v 
where t1.id in (select/*+ precompute_subquery */ * from table(sys.odcinumberlist(1,2,3)) c)
and v.a = t1.a;

Plan hash value: 1964829099

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                       | Name         | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                |              |    30 |   480 |    37   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  HASH GROUP BY                  |              |    30 |   480 |    37   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                  |              |    30 |   480 |    36   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    NESTED LOOPS                 |              |    30 |   480 |    36   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     INLIST ITERATOR             |              |       |       |            |          |
|   5 |      TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| XTEST1       |     3 |    24 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  6 |       INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | SYS_C0026365 |     3 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  7 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN            | ITEST2       |    10 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   8 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID  | XTEST2       |    10 |    80 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------

   6 - access("T1"."ID"=1 OR "T1"."ID"=2 OR "T1"."ID"=3)
   7 - access("A"="T1"."A")

It can help even in most difficult cases, for example if you can’t rewrite query (in this case you can create sql patch or sql profile with “precompute_subquery”), but I wouldn’t suggest it since “precompute_subquery” is non-documented, it can be used only with simple collections and has limitation in 1000 values.
I’d suggest to use the workaround with lateral, since it’s most reliable and very simple.

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Top time-consuming predicates from ASH

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in oracle, query optimizing, SQL, statistics, troubleshooting 1,870 Page views Leave a comment

Sometimes it might be useful to analyze top time-consuming filter and access predicates from ASH, especially in cases when db load is spread evenly enough by different queries and top segments do not show anything interesting, except usual things like “some tables are requested more often than others”.
Of course, we can start from analysis of SYS.COL_USAGE$: col_usage.sql

col_usage.sql

[sourcecode language=”sql”]
col owner format a30
col oname format a30 heading "Object name"
col cname format a30 heading "Column name"
accept owner_mask prompt "Enter owner mask: ";
accept tab_name prompt "Enter tab_name mask: ";
accept col_name prompt "Enter col_name mask: ";

SELECT a.username as owner
,o.name as oname
,c.name as cname
,u.equality_preds as equality_preds
,u.equijoin_preds as equijoin_preds
,u.nonequijoin_preds as nonequijoin_preds
,u.range_preds as range_preds
,u.like_preds as like_preds
,u.null_preds as null_preds
,to_char(u.timestamp, ‘yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss’) when
FROM
sys.col_usage$ u
, sys.obj$ o
, sys.col$ c
, all_users a
WHERE a.user_id = o.owner#
AND u.obj# = o.obj#
AND u.obj# = c.obj#
AND u.intcol# = c.col#
AND a.username like upper(‘&owner_mask’)
AND o.name like upper(‘&tab_name’)
AND c.name like upper(‘&col_name’)
ORDER BY a.username, o.name, c.name
;
col owner clear;
col oname clear;
col cname clear;
undef tab_name col_name owner_mask;
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But it’s not enough, for example it doesn’t show predicates combinations. In this case we can use v$active_session_history and v$sql_plan:

Top 50 predicates

[sourcecode language=”sql”]
with
ash as (
select
sql_id
,plan_hash_value
,table_name
,alias
,ACCESS_PREDICATES
,FILTER_PREDICATES
,count(*) cnt
from (
select
h.sql_id
,h.SQL_PLAN_HASH_VALUE plan_hash_value
,decode(p.OPERATION
,’TABLE ACCESS’,p.OBJECT_OWNER||’.’||p.OBJECT_NAME
,(select i.TABLE_OWNER||’.’||i.TABLE_NAME from dba_indexes i where i.OWNER=p.OBJECT_OWNER and i.index_name=p.OBJECT_NAME)
) table_name
,OBJECT_ALIAS ALIAS
,p.ACCESS_PREDICATES
,p.FILTER_PREDICATES
— поля, которые могут быть полезны для анализа в других разрезах:
— ,h.sql_plan_operation
— ,h.sql_plan_options
— ,decode(h.session_state,’ON CPU’,’ON CPU’,h.event) event
— ,h.current_obj#
from v$active_session_history h
,v$sql_plan p
where h.sql_opname=’SELECT’
and h.IN_SQL_EXECUTION=’Y’
and h.sql_plan_operation in (‘INDEX’,’TABLE ACCESS’)
and p.SQL_ID = h.sql_id
and p.CHILD_NUMBER = h.SQL_CHILD_NUMBER
and p.ID = h.SQL_PLAN_LINE_ID
— если захотим за последние 3 часа:
— and h.sample_time >= systimestamp – interval ‘3’ hour
)
— если захотим анализируем предикаты только одной таблицы:
— where table_name=’&OWNER.&TABNAME’
group by
sql_id
,plan_hash_value
,table_name
,alias
,ACCESS_PREDICATES
,FILTER_PREDICATES
)
,agg_by_alias as (
select
table_name
,regexp_substr(ALIAS,’^[^@]+’) ALIAS
,listagg(ACCESS_PREDICATES,’ ‘) within group(order by ACCESS_PREDICATES) ACCESS_PREDICATES
,listagg(FILTER_PREDICATES,’ ‘) within group(order by FILTER_PREDICATES) FILTER_PREDICATES
,sum(cnt) cnt
from ash
group by
sql_id
,plan_hash_value
,table_name
,alias
)
,agg as (
select
table_name
,’ALIAS’ alias
,replace(access_predicates,’"’||alias||’".’,’"ALIAS".’) access_predicates
,replace(filter_predicates,’"’||alias||’".’,’"ALIAS".’) filter_predicates
,sum(cnt) cnt
from agg_by_alias
group by
table_name
,replace(access_predicates,’"’||alias||’".’,’"ALIAS".’)
,replace(filter_predicates,’"’||alias||’".’,’"ALIAS".’)
)
,cols as (
select
table_name
,cols
,access_predicates
,filter_predicates
,sum(cnt)over(partition by table_name,cols) total_by_cols
,cnt
from agg
,xmltable(
‘string-join(for $c in /ROWSET/ROW/COL order by $c return $c,",")’
passing
xmltype(
cursor(
(select distinct
nvl(
regexp_substr(
access_predicates||’ ‘||filter_predicates
,'("’||alias||’"\.|[^.]|^)"([A-Z0-9#_$]+)"([^.]|$)’
,1
,level
,’i’,2
),’ ‘)
col
from dual
connect by
level<=regexp_count(
access_predicates||’ ‘||filter_predicates
,'("’||alias||’"\.|[^.]|^)"([A-Z0-9#_$]+)"([^.]|$)’
)
)
))
columns cols varchar2(400) path ‘.’
)(+)
order by total_by_cols desc, table_name, cnt desc
)
select
table_name
,cols
,sum(cnt)over(partition by table_name,cols) total_by_cols
,access_predicates
,filter_predicates
,cnt
from cols
where rownum<=50
order by total_by_cols desc, table_name, cnt desc;
[/sourcecode]

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As you can see it shows top 50 predicates and their columns for last 3 hours. Despite the fact that ASH stores just sampled data, its results are representative enough for high-load databases.
Just few details:

  • Column “COLS” shows “search columns”, and total_by_cols – their number of occurrences
  • I think it’s obvious, that this info is not unambiguous marker of the problem, because for example few full table scans can misrepresent the statistics, so sometimes you will need to analyze such queries deeper (v$sqlstats,dba_hist_sqlstat)
  • We need to group data by OBJECT_ALIAS within SQL_ID and plan_hash_value, because in case of index access with lookup to table(“table access by rowid”) some predicates are in the row with index access and others are in the row with table access.

Depending on the needs, we can modify this query to analyze ASH data by different dimensions, for example with additional analysis of partitioning or wait events.

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Correct syntax for the table_stats hint

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Roger MacNicol Posted in adaptive serial direct path reads, CBO, hints, oracle, SmartScan, trace, troubleshooting, undocumented 2,446 Page views 3 Comments

A friend contacted me to ask why they were having problems using the table_stats hint to influence optimizer decision making and also to influence the decision to use direct read or buffer cache scan so this is just a quick blog post to clarify the syntax as it is not well documented.

table_stats(<table_name> <method> {<keyword>=<value>} )

Method is one of: DEFAULT, SET, SCALE, SAMPLE

Keyword is one of: BLOCKS, ROWS, ROW_LENGTH
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Another bug with lateral

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in 12c, bug, CBO, curious, oracle, troubleshooting 1,617 Page views Leave a comment

Compare the results of the following query with the clause “fetch first 2 rows only”

with 
 t1(a) as (select * from table(odcinumberlist(1,3)))
,t2(a,b) as (select * from table(ku$_objnumpairlist(
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(1,1),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(1,2),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(1,3),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(3,1),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(3,2),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(3,3)
                                 )))
,t(id) as (select * from table(odcinumberlist(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)))
select
  *
from t,
     lateral(select t1.a,t2.b
             from t1,t2 
             where t1.a = t2.a 
               and t1.a = t.id
             order by t2.b
             fetch first 2 rows only
             )(+)
order by id;

        ID          A          B
---------- ---------- ----------
         1          1          1
         1          3          1
         2          1          1
         2          3          1
         3          1          1
         3          3          1
         4          1          1
         4          3          1
         5          1          1
         5          3          1
         6          1          1
         6          3          1
         7          1          1
         7          3          1

14 rows selected.

with this one (i’ve just commented out the line with “fetch-first-rows-only”:

with 
 t1(a) as (select * from table(odcinumberlist(1,3)))
,t2(a,b) as (select * from table(ku$_objnumpairlist(
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(1,1),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(1,2),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(1,3),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(3,1),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(3,2),
                                 sys.ku$_objnumpair(3,3)
                                 )))
,t(id) as (select * from table(odcinumberlist(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)))
select
  *
from t,
     lateral(select t1.a,t2.b
             from t1,t2 
             where t1.a = t2.a 
               and t1.a = t.id
             order by t2.b
--             fetch first 2 rows only
             )(+)
order by id;

        ID          A          B
---------- ---------- ----------
         1          1          2
         1          1          3
         1          1          1
         2
         3          3          2
         3          3          1
         3          3          3
         4
         5
         6
         7

11 rows selected.

Obviously, the first query should return less rows than second one, but we can see that it returned more rows and join predicate “and t1.a = t.id” was ignored, because A and B are not empty and “A” is not equal to t.ID.

bug cbo fetch-first-rows-only lateral
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