Re: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread ryan.gaffuri
of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized when it involves multiple partitions. - Dave David Hau wrote: I assume you're talking about the Fast Full Index Scan. This is used when

Re: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread ryan.gaffuri
Logical and Physical I/Os. test it and hint your queries From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 10:34:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread David Hau
, it generally means my table(s) aren't properly analyzed. From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 10:34:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread David Hau
your queries From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 10:34:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized when it involves multiple partitions. - Dave

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread Tanel Poder
means my table(s) aren't properly analyzed. From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 10:34:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized when

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread David Hau
From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 10:34:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized when it involves multiple partitions. - Dave David Hau wrote

Re: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread ryan.gaffuri
PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/27 Tue AM 11:14:27 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' This is where the access time of your disks (or SAN) makes a difference. If your disks have really fast access time, then a random

Re: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread ryan.gaffuri
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Another situation where index full scans might be handy, would be where hash joins are disabled and sorted output can be used for fast sort-merge join. Btw, multiblock reads are available for regular index range and full scan under

Re: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread Tanel Poder
scans. any ideas? I rarely ever find this to be an optimal index access method for anything. From: Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/27 Tue AM 11:19:27 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Another

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread Jared . Still
PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/27/2004 08:54 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' This is where the access time of your disks (or SAN) makes a difference

Re: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread ryan.gaffuri
and Physical I/Os. test it and hint your queries From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 10:34:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' Correction: the Index Range Scan can

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread David Hau
found that index_ffs typically incur higher logical I/Os that index range scans. so its not just access speeds. From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/27 Tue AM 11:54:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread Ryan
logical I/Os that index range scans. so its not just access speeds. From: David Hau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/27 Tue AM 11:54:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' This is where the access time of your

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-27 Thread David Hau
AM 11:54:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' This is where the access time of your disks (or SAN) makes a difference. If your disks have really fast access time, then a random-access pattern would not cause much

When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan
I have found that the vast majority of time that Oracle chooses this method, my statistics are stale and the query is sub-optimal. One time, Oracle changed from a 'range scan' to this type of scan with a FIRST_ROWS hint and this reduced performance. This is just a full scan of the index,

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-26 Thread David Hau
I assume you're talking about the Fast Full Index Scan. This is used when the index contains all the columns necessary to answer the query. It's faster than a Full Table Scan because indexes are smaller than entire rows, so a Fast Full Index Scan will scan fewer blocks than a Full Table Scan.

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-26 Thread David Hau
Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized when it involves multiple partitions. - Dave David Hau wrote: I assume you're talking about the Fast Full Index Scan. This is used when the index contains all the columns necessary to answer the query. It's faster than a Full Table Scan