You mean.... Rely on SQL Plus....... And it depends... not necessary the joining conditions or the fields first
On Nov 10, 11:33 pm, "MW Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Run explain plans on both to find out- I you are not familiar doing these in > SQL Plus (although there is plenty resource material out there), most tools > TOAD, PL\SQL developer etc have these. I suggest using oracle's free sql > developer. Its great. > It depends what optimizer your database is running, but its likely that it > wont make a difference in this case. > > Always use explain plan though with these types of questions, not only will > it give you the answer, but also get you more familiar with tuning and > optimization, which I think is a huge and essential skill to have. > > Hope that helps. > > mike > > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM, weird0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would be it a more optimizable sol. to apply the joining conditions > > first or apply the restrictions on fields like male gender. > > > I believe applying the restrictions first, to min. the table and then > > to join the tables is more optimized way. > > > For example:- > > > More optimized > > -------------------- > > > select a.col1,b.col1,c.col1 > > from tbl_1 a, tbl_2 b, tbl_3 c > > where a.gender='Male' > > and a.type='Animal' > > and a.id=b.id > > and a.id=c.id > > > Less optimized > > ---------------------- > > select a.col1,b.col1,c.col1 > > from tbl_1 a, tbl_2 b, tbl_3 c > > where a.id=b.id > > and a.id=c.id > > and a.gender='Male' > > and a.type='Animal' > > > Kindly, respond and give me refer me additional comprehensive good > > links about > > Query Optimizations. > > -- > Michael Mann --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. To post to this group, send email to Oracle-PLSQL@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---