Mark Leith wrote:
>
> Hi list people :)
>
> We have a customer who has been running a particular delete statement
> against a table for a while now, which usually ran within minutes. All of a
> sudden this table has suddenly gone from a few minutes right up to 50! He
> wants to diagnose why..
>
> Where would you start?
>
> I have a few ideas of my own - like stale stats, small rollback segments
> etc. - but am after some of your advice also before I get back to him
> tomorrow morning.. Not sure on the Oracle version, OS, or even amount of
> rows he is deleting or size of the table (yet, I'll find this out tomorrow),
> but there has to be a pretty standard way of diagnosing this..
>
> All help appreciated.
>
> Mark
>
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'We have done nothing and suddenly it's slow' is a well known tune.
Usual suspects :
1) Stats, computed or deleted
2) Dropped index
3) Newly created trigger
4) Locks. Nobody doing DML on the same table during the delete ?
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