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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 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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v$sql_hint.target_level

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Sayan Malakshinov Posted in CBO, oracle, SQL, undocumented Leave a comment

Today I wanted to give a link to the description of v$sql_hint.target_level to show that no_parallel can be specified for statement or object, and though it’s pretty obvious, but surprisingly I haven’t found any articles or posts about it, so this short post describes it.
v$sql_hint.target_level is a bitset, where
1st bit set to 1 means that the hint can be specified on statement level,
2nd – on query block level,
3rd – on object level,
4th – on join level(for multiple objects).
Short example:

   select name,sql_feature
          ,class,inverse
          ,version,version_outline
          ,target_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,1),0,'no','yes') Statement_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,2),0,'no','yes') Query_block_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,4),0,'no','yes') Object_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,8),0,'no','yes') Join_level
   from v$sql_hint h;
with hints as (
   select name,sql_feature
          ,class,inverse
          ,version,version_outline
          ,target_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,1),0,'no','yes') Statement_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,2),0,'no','yes') Query_block_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,4),0,'no','yes') Object_level
         ,decode(bitand(target_level,8),0,'no','yes') Join_level
   from v$sql_hint h
)
select *
from hints
where statement_level='yes'
  and to_number(regexp_substr(version,'^\d+')) >= 18
order by version;

Result:

NAME              SQL_FEATURE     CLASS                VERSION  TARGET_LEVEL STATEMENT_LEVEL QUERY_BLOCK_LEVEL OBJECT_LEVEL JOIN_LEVEL
----------------- --------------- -------------------- -------- ------------ --------------- ----------------- ------------ ----------
PDB_LOCAL_ONLY    QKSFM_DML       PDB_LOCAL_ONLY       18.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
SUPPRESS_LOAD     QKSFM_DDL       SUPPRESS_LOAD        18.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
SYSTEM_STATS      QKSFM_ALL       SYSTEM_STATS         18.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE QKSFM_EXECUTION MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE    18.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
SKIP_PROXY        QKSFM_ALL       SKIP_PROXY           18.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
CURRENT_INSTANCE  QKSFM_ALL       CURRENT_INSTANCE     18.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
JSON_LENGTH       QKSFM_EXECUTION JSON_LENGTH          19.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
QUARANTINE        QKSFM_EXECUTION QUARANTINE           19.1.0              1 yes             no                no           no
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More tricks with OPT_PARAM

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Roger MacNicol Posted in cell_offload, hints, oracle, SmartScan Leave a comment

Did you know you can set most parameters for the execution of a single statement without using an Alter Session by using an OPT_PARAM hint? For example, regular parameters (here forcing the storage clause in the query plan):

SQL> select /*+ OPT_PARAM('cell_offload_plan_display' 'always') */ col1 From table1;

and underscore parameters:

SQL>  select /*+ OPT_PARAM('_arch_comp_dbg_scan',2048) */ n_name from nation;
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