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  Hello
  
  I use Oracle 10 g r2.
  
  I have this simple query that seems to take too long to execute:
  

  DECLARE
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       min_day DATE;
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  SQL> DESCRIBE OPERATIONS
  
  Nom                  NULL     Type
  -------------------- -------- ------------
  OP_ID                NOT NULL NUMBER(7)
  OP_PARENT_OP_ID               NUMBER(7)
  OP_RESPONSIBLE       NOT NULL VARCHAR2(10)
  OP_DESCRIPT                   VARCHAR2(80)
  OP_VEDA_NAME         NOT NULL VARCHAR2(10)
  OP_BEGIN             NOT NULL DATE
  OP_END                        DATE
  OP_INSERT_DATE                DATE
  OP_LAST_UPDATE                DATE
  OP_INSERT_BY                  VARCHAR2(50)
  OP_UPDATE_BY                  VARCHAR2(50)
  
  SQL> DESCRIBE OPERATION_MEASUREMENTS
  
  Nom                  NULL     Type
  -------------------- -------- ------------
  OGM_MEAS_ID          NOT NULL NUMBER(7)
  OGM_OP_ID            NOT NULL NUMBER(6)
  OGM_INSERT_DATE               DATE
  OGM_LAST_UPDATE               DATE
  OGM_INSERT_BY                 VARCHAR2(50)
  OGM_UPDATE_BY                 VARCHAR2(50)
  
  SQL> DESCRIBE GEODETIC_MEASUREMENTS
  
  Nom                  NULL     Type
  -------------------- -------- ------------
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  MEAS_TYPE            NOT NULL VARCHAR2(2)
  MEAS_TEAM            NOT NULL VARCHAR2(10)
  MEAS_DAY             NOT NULL DATE
  MEAS_OBJ_ID          NOT NULL NUMBER(6)
  MEAS_STATUS                   VARCHAR2(1)
  MEAS_COMMENT                  VARCHAR2(150)
  MEAS_DIRECTION                VARCHAR2(1)
  MEAS_DIST_MODE                VARCHAR2(2)
  MEAS_SPAT_ID         NOT NULL NUMBER(7)
  MEAS_INST_ID                  NUMBER(7)
  MEAS_DECALAGE                 NUMBER(8,5)
  MEAS_INST_HEIGHT              NUMBER(8,5)
  MEAS_READING         NOT NULL NUMBER(11,5)
  MEAS_CORRECT_READING          NUMBER(11,5)
  MEAS_HUMID_TEMP               NUMBER(4,1)
  MEAS_DRY_TEMP                 NUMBER(4,1)
  MEAS_PRESSURE                 NUMBER(4)
  MEAS_HUMIDITY                 NUMBER(2)
  MEAS_CONSTANT                 NUMBER(8,5)
  MEAS_ROLE                     VARCHAR2(1)
  MEAS_INSERT_DATE              DATE
  MEAS_LAST_UPDATE              DATE
  MEAS_INSERT_BY                VARCHAR2(50)
  MEAS_UPDATE_BY                VARCHAR2(50)
  MEAS_TILT_MODE                VARCHAR2(4000) 

  -Explain the plan (I'm not familiar with the plans explain... command):
  

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Id  | Operation                     | Name                   | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |   0 | SELECT STATEMENT              |                        |     1 |    19 |   256  (10)| 00:00:02 |
  |   1 |  SORT AGGREGATE               |                        |     1 |    19 |            |          |
  |   2 |   NESTED LOOPS                |                        |    75 |  1425 |   256  (10)| 00:00:02 |
  |*  3 |    TABLE ACCESS FULL          | OPERATION_MEASUREMENTS |    75 |   600 |    90  (27)| 00:00:01 |
  |   4 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| GEODETIC_MEASUREMENTS  |     1 |    11 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
  |*  5 |     INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | MEAS_PK_2              |     1 |       |     2  (50)| 00:00:01 |
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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  Thank you.
  
  Yann.

  Looks like you are missing a FK-index on the table in the Middle, for FK goes to OPERATIONS.

  Currently this:

  WHERE ogm_op_id = 0;
  

  Is calculated by a followed by a filter operation full table scan. Assuming that OP_ID is pretty selective, an index on OGM_OP_ID might do the trick here.

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  Courtney,

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  I created a form of the ADF, which is made of ADF panels which allow the user to run some simple queries against an Oracle database is way to display links ADF and ADF application module. I would like to add another Panel to the main form that would allow the user to open an existing XML file (.xml) and modify it at will. How can I do this?
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  Database: Oracle 10g
  Host: Sun Solaris, 16 CPU server
  
  
  
  I look at the behavior of some simple queries that I start the tuning of our data warehouse.
  
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  OF PROCEDURE_FACT
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  Christopher Curzon wrote:
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  Note that since you have 16 processors (or 16 cores that resemble Oracle 32? Check the CPU_COUNT setting) the default parallel degree would be usually 2 times 16 = 32, which means that Oracle generates at least 32 parallel slaves for a parallel operation (it could be another set of 32 slaves if the operation for example include a GROUP BY operation) If you do not use the PARALLEL_ADAPTIVE_MULTI_USER parameter (which allows to reduce the parallelism if several parallel operations running concurrently).

  I recommend to choose a lesser degree parallel to your default value of 32 because usually you gain much by such a degree, then you can get the same performance when you use lower a setting like this:

  SELECT /*+ PARALLEL(PROCEDURE_FACT, 4) */ DATA_SOURCE_CD, COUNT(*)
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  Note When defining the object of many operations in PARALLEL will be parallelisee (DML even can be run in parallel, if you enable dml parallel, which has some special restrictions), so I recommend to use it with caution and begin with an explicit indication in those statements where you know that it will be useful to do.

  Also check that your PARALLEL_MAX_SERVERS is high enough when you use parallel operations, which should be the case in your version of Oracle.

  Kind regards
  Randolf

  Oracle related blog stuff:
  http://Oracle-Randolf.blogspot.com/

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  http://sourceforge.NET/projects/SQLT-pp/

• Simple Variables example

  Hello
  
  I have user rights to an Oracle 10 g server, but am not a DBA, so I did not all editing permissions that I know. I just use the database for queries.
  
  I want to understand how to use PL/SQL to enter variables but am struggling to find some simple examples of this?
  
  I use Oradev Studio to perform my SQL and we tried the following:
  
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  type of v_dealname global_sf.deal.deal_legal_name %;
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  Of
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  Here I get the error 'an INTO clause in this SELECT statement.
  
  Could someone advise me please on some of those issues of basic variables? Ideally a breast of simple examples, I could use it don't require admin rights would be fantastic. It would be much appreciated.
  
  Thank you
  
  Jon
  
  Published by: berlinhammer on August 24, 2010 04:48

  I use Oradev Studio to perform my SQL

  Probably the post on the forum to DBMS_OUTPUT problem contributes to operate in OraDeveloper the dbms_output.

• Simple counter in seconds

  Hello

  In my code, I have a while loop which may or may not take more than x seconds to run. Once the while loop has worked for x seconds I would to provide a series of commands. Therefore, I need a kind of counter. Number of cycles will help me with that? If so, how? If this is not the case, how can I create a counter for this simple task? Thank you.

  Alfredo

  Yes, the number of cycles can be used for this, and other mechanisms. For example, you can use the time to get the seconds. Here are some simple examples: