I'm confused.
How many rows are actually in the table? Also the blob is stored in the same table not stored separately? (Sorry, but I'm working in a couple of different databases so I'm always forgetting if Derby allows for detached blobs .) But if your table really only has 13 rows, it will always do a sequential scan. _____ From: T K [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Horrible performance - how can I reclaim table space? We have a horrific performance issue with a table of 13 rows, each one containing a very small blob, because the table is presumably full of dead rows and we are table-scanning; here's part of the explain plan: Source result set: Table Scan ResultSet for SOMETABLE at read committed isolation level using instantaneous share row locking chosen by the optimizer Number of columns fetched=4 Number of pages visited=8546 Number of rows qualified=13 Number of rows visited=85040 optimizer estimated cost: 787747.94 So I assume I have over 85,000 dead rows in the table, and compressing it does not reclaim the space. In fact, because we keep adding and deleting rows, the performance gets worse by the hour, and according to the above plan, Derby has processed over 32MB of data just to match 4 of the 13 rows. For the time being, I want to optimize this table scan before I resort to indices and/or reusing rows. This is with Derby 10.3 Any thoughts? Thanks
