Distinct aggregation in pre-calculated measure (MDX) - visual-studio

There are two measures in one fact table \ dimension. Measure 'YearTotal' should somehow be pre-calcuated as a distinct value for any futher summing (aggregating). And 'YearTotal' can't be derived from 'YearDetail' measure, so they are completely independent.
+-------------+---------------+-----------+------------+
| AccountingID | Date | TotalYear | YearDetail |
+--------------+---------------+-----------+------------+
| account1 | 31.12.2012 | 500 | 7 |
| account1 | 31.12.2012 | 500 | 3 |
| account1 | 31.12.2012 | 500 | 1 |
| account2 | 31.12.2012 | 900 | 53 |
| account2 | 31.12.2012 | 900 | 4 |
| account2 | 31.12.2012 | 900 | 9 |
| account3 | 31.12.2012 | 203 | 25 |
| account3 | 31.12.2012 | 203 | 11 |
| account3 | 31.12.2012 | 203 | 17 |
+--------------+---------------+-----------+------------+
So, the question: What should be in (pre)calculated measure expression to get such a result:
select
(
[Accounting Dim].[Account ID]
[Dim Date].[Calendar Year].&[2012]
) ON COLUMNS
from [Cube]
WHERE [Measures].[YearTotal]
in case of correct expression the answer would be --> (500+900+203) = 1603
(and optionaly): maybe there is a common distinct pattern solution for any other simple types of aggregation

Maybe go with MAX at the column level [TotalYear] and enforce a specific level of calculation.
CREATE MEMBER [Measures].[YearTotal] AS
MAX(
(
[Calendar Dim].[Year].[All].Children,
[Accounting Dim].[Account ID].[All].Children
),
[Measures].[TotalYear]
)

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Determinate unique values from oracle join?

I need a way to avoid duplicate values from oracle join, I have this scenario.
The first table contain general information about a person.
+-----------+-------+-------------+
| ID | Name | Birtday_date|
+-----------+-------+-------------+
| 1 | Byron | 12/10/1998 |
| 2 | Peter | 01/11/1973 |
| 4 | Jose | 05/02/2008 |
+-----------+-------+-------------+
The second table contain information about a telephone of the people in the first table.
+-------+----------+----------+----------+
| ID |ID_Person |CELL_TYPE | NUMBER |
+-------+- --------+----------+----------+
| 1221 | 1 | 3 | 099141021|
| 2221 | 1 | 2 | 099091925|
| 3222 | 1 | 1 | 098041013|
| 4321 | 2 | 1 | 088043153|
| 4561 | 2 | 2 | 090044313|
| 5678 | 4 | 1 | 092049013|
| 8990 | 4 | 2 | 098090233|
+----- -+----------+----------+----------+
The Third table contain information about a email of the people in the first table.
+------+----------+----------+---------------+
| ID |ID_Person |EMAIL_TYPE| Email |
+------+- --------+----------+---------------+
| 221 | 1 | 1 |jdoe#aol.com |
| 222 | 1 | 2 |jdoe1#aol.com |
| 421 | 2 | 1 |xx12#yahoo.com |
| 451 | 2 | 2 |dsdsa#gmail.com|
| 578 | 4 | 1 |sasaw1#sdas.com|
| 899 | 4 | 2 |cvcvsd#wew.es |
| 899 | 4 | 2 |cvsd#www.es |
+------+----------+----------+---------------+
I was able to produce a result like this, you can check in this link http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/8e326/1
+-----+-------+-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------------+
| ID | Name | Birtday_date| CELL_TYPE| NUMBER |EMAIL_TYPE|EMAIL|
+-----+-------+-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------------+
| 1 | Byron | 12/10/1998 | 3 | 099141021|1 |jdoe#aol.com |
| 1 | Byron | 12/10/1998 | 2 | 099091925|2 |jdoe1#aol.com |
| 1 | Byron | 12/10/1998 | 1 | 099091925| | |
| 2 | Peter | 01/11/1973 | 1 | 088043153|1 |xx12#yahoo.com |
| 2 | Peter | 01/11/1973 | 2 | 090044313|2 |dsdsa#gmail.com |
| 4 | Jose | 05/02/2008 | 1 | 092049013|1 |sasaw1#sdas.com |
| 4 | Jose | 05/02/2008 | 2 | 098090233|2 |cvcvsd#wew.es |
+-----+-------+-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------------+
If you check the data in table Email for user with ID_Person = 4 only present two of the three emails that have, the problem for this case is the person have more emails that cellphone numbers and only will present the same number of the cellphone numbers.
The result i expected is something like this.
+-----+-------+-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------------+
| ID | Name | Birtday_date| CELL_TYPE| NUMBER |EMAIL_TYPE|EMAIL|
+-----+-------+-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------------+
| 1 | Byron | 12/10/1998 | 3 | 099141021|1 |jdoe#aol.com |
| 1 | Byron | 12/10/1998 | 2 | 099091925|2 |jdoe1#aol.com |
| 1 | Byron | 12/10/1998 | 1 | 099091925| | |
| 2 | Peter | 01/11/1973 | 1 | 088043153|1 |xx12#yahoo.com |
| 2 | Peter | 01/11/1973 | 2 | 090044313|2 |dsdsa#gmail.com |
| 4 | Jose | 05/02/2008 | 1 | 092049013|1 |sasaw1#sdas.com |
| 4 | Jose | 05/02/2008 | 2 | 098090233|2 |cvcvsd#wew.es |
| 4 | Jose | 05/02/2008 | | |2 |cvsd#www.es |
+-----+-------+-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------------+
This is the way that i need to present the data.
I could not understand why your query was so complex, thus, added the simple full outer join and it seems to be working:
select distinct p.id, p.name,
case when Lag(CELL) over(partition by p.id order by p.id,pe.id) = CELL then null else cell_type end as cell_type,
case when Lag(CELL) over(partition by p.id order by p.id,pe.id) = CELL then null else CELL end as CELL,
EMAIL_TYPE as EMAIL_TYPE, EMAIL as EMAIL
from person p full outer join phones pe on p.id = pe.id
full outer join emails e
on p.id = e.id and pe.cell_type = e.email_type;

Indexes hints in a Subquery

I have a SQL statement that has performance issues.
Adding the following index and a SQL hint to use the index improves the performance 10 fold but I do not understand why.
BUS_ID is part of the primary key(T1.REF is the other part fo the key) and clustered index on the T1 table.
The T1 table has about 100,000 rows. BUS_ID has only 6 different values. Similarly the T1.STATUS column can only have a limited number of
possibilities and the majority of these(99%) will be the same value.
If I run the query without the hint(/*+ INDEX ( T1 T1_IDX1) NO_UNNEST */) it takes 5 seconds and with the hint it takes .5 seconds.
I don't understand how the index helps the subquery as T1.STATUS isn't used in any of the 'where' or 'join' clauses in the subquery.
What am I missing?
SELECT
/*+ NO_UNNEST */
t1.bus_id,
t1.ref,
t2.cust,
t3.cust_name,
t2.po_number,
t1.status_old,
t1.status,
t1.an_status
FROM t1
LEFT JOIN t2
ON t1.bus_id = t2.bus_id
AND t1.ref = t2.ref
JOIN t3
ON t3.cust = t2.cust
AND t3.bus_id = t2.bus_id
WHERE (
status IN ('A', 'B', 'C') AND status_old IN ('X', 'Y'))
AND EXISTS
( SELECT /*+ INDEX ( T1 T1_IDX1) NO_UNNEST */
*
FROM t1
WHERE ( EXISTS ( SELECT /*+ NO_UNNEST */
*
FROM t6
WHERE seq IN ( '0', '2' )
AND t1.bus_id = t6.bus_id)
OR (EXISTS
(SELECT /*+ NO_UNNEST */
*
FROM t6
WHERE seq = '1'
AND (an_status = 'Y'
OR
an_status = 'X')
AND t1.bus_id = t6.bus_id))
AND t2.ref = t1.ref))
AND USER IN ('FRED')
AND ( t2.status != '45'
AND t2.status != '20')
AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT
/*+ NO_UNNEST */
*
FROM t4
WHERE EXISTS
(
SELECT
/*+ NO_UNNEST */
*
FROM t5
WHERE pd IN ( '1',
'0' )
AND appl = 'RYP'
AND appl_id IN ( 'RL100')
AND t4.id = t5.id)
AND t2.ref = p.ref
AND t2.bus_id = p.bus_id);
Edited to include Explain Plan and index.
Without Index hint
------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------
Operation | Options |Cost| # |Bytes | CPU Cost | IO COST
------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------
select statement | | 20 | 1 | 211 | 15534188 | 19 |
view | | 20 | 1 | 211 | 15534188 | 19 |
count | | | | | | |
view | | 20 | 1 | 198 | 15534188 | 19 |
sort | ORDER BY | 20 | 1 | 114 | 15534188 | 19 |
nested loops | | 7 | 1 | 114 | 62487 | 7 |
nested loops | | 7 | 1 | 114 | 62487 | 7 |
nested loops | | 6 | 1 | 84 | 53256 | 6 |
inlist iterator | | | | | | |
TABLE access t1 | INDEX ROWID | 4 | 1 | 29 | 36502 | 4 |
index-t1_idx#3 | RANGE SCAN | 3 | 1 | | 28686 | 3 |
TABLE access - t2 | INDEX ROWID | 2 | 1 | 55 | 16754 | 2 |
index t2_idx#0 | UNIQUE SCAN | 1 | 1 | | 9042 | 1 |
filter | | | | | | |
TABLE access-t1 | INDEX ROWID | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7433 | 2 |
TABLE access-t6 | INDEX ROWID | 3 | 1 | 4 | 23169 | 3 |
index-t6_idx#0 | UNIQUE RANGE SCAN | 1 | 3 | | 7721 | 1 |
filter | | | | | | |
TABLE access-t6 | INDEX ROWID | 2 | 2 | 8 | 15363 | 2 |
index-t6_idx#0 | UNIQUE RANGE SCAN | 1 | 3 | | 7521 | 1 |
index-t4_idx#1 | RANGE SCAN | 3 | 1 | 28 | 21584 | 3 |
inlist iterator | | | | | | |
index-t5_idx#1 | RANGE SCAN | 4 | 1 | 24 | 42929 | 4 |
index-t3_idx#0 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | 0 | 1 | | 1900 | 0 |
TABLE access-t3 | INDEX ROWID | 1 | 1 | 30 | 9231 | 1 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
With Index hint
------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------
Operation | Options |Cost| # |Bytes | CPU Cost | IO COST
------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------
select statement | | 21 | 1 | 211 | 15549142 | 19 |
view | | 21 | 1 | 211 | 15549142 | 19 |
count | | | | | | |
view | | 21 | 1 | 198 | 15549142 | 19 |
sort | ORDER BY | 21 | 1 | 114 | 15549142 | 19 |
nested loops | | 7 | 1 | 114 | 62487 | 7 |
nested loops | | 7 | 1 | 114 | 62487 | 7 |
nested loops | | 6 | 1 | 84 | 53256 | 6 |
inlist iterator | | | | | | |
TABLE access t1 | INDEX ROWID | 4 | 1 | 29 | 36502 | 4 |
index-t1_idx#3 | RANGE SCAN | 3 | 1 | | 28686 | 3 |
TABLE access - t2 | INDEX ROWID | 2 | 1 | 55 | 16754 | 2 |
index t2_idx#0 | UNIQUE SCAN | 1 | 1 | | 9042 | 1 |
filter | | | | | | |
TABLE access-t1 | INDEX ROWID | 3 | 1 | 15 | 22387 | 2 |
index-t1_idx#1 | FULL SCAN | 2 |97k| | 14643 | |
TABLE access-t6 | INDEX ROWID | 3 | 1 | 4 | 23169 | 3 |
index-t6_idx#0 | UNIQUE RANGE SCAN | 1 | 3 | | 7721 | 1 |
filter | | | | | | |
TABLE access-t6 | INDEX ROWID | 2 | 2 | 8 | 15363 | 2 |
index-t6_idx#0 | UNIQUE RANGE SCAN | 1 | 3 | | 7521 | 1 |
index-t4_idx#1 | RANGE SCAN | 3 | 1 | 28 | 21584 | 3 |
inlist iterator | | | | | | |
index-t5_idx#1 | RANGE SCAN | 4 | 1 | 24 | 42929 | 4 |
index-t3_idx#0 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | 0 | 1 | | 1900 | 0 |
TABLE access-t3 | INDEX ROWID | 1 | 1 | 30 | 9231 | 1 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Table Index
CREATE INDEX T1_IDX#1 ON T1 (BUS_ID, STATUS)

Oracle "Total" plan cost is really less than some of it's elements

I cannot figure out why sometimes, the total cost of a plan can be a very small number whereas looking inside the plan we can find huge costs. (indeed the query is very slow).
Can somebody explain me that?
Here is an example.
Apparently the costful part comes from a field in the main select that does a listagg on a subview and the join condition with this subview contains a complex condition (we can join on one field or another).
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 875 | 20 |
| 1 | SORT GROUP BY | | 1 | 544 | |
| 2 | VIEW | | 1 | 544 | 3 |
| 3 | SORT UNIQUE | | 1 | 481 | 3 |
| 4 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 5 | NESTED LOOPS | | 3 | 1443 | 2 |
| 6 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 7 | 140 | 1 |
| 7 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 7 | | 1 |
| 8 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 9 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 461 | 1 |
| 10 | SORT GROUP BY | | 1 | 182 | |
| 11 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 12 | NESTED LOOPS | | 8 | 1456 | 3 |
| 13 | NESTED LOOPS | | 8 | 304 | 2 |
| 14 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 7 | 154 | 1 |
| 15 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 7 | | 1 |
| 16 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| 17 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 18 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 144 | 1 |
| 19 | SORT GROUP BY | | 1 | 268 | |
| 20 | VIEW | | 1 | 268 | 9 |
| 21 | SORT UNIQUE | | 1 | 108 | 9 |
| 22 | CONCATENATION | | | | |
| 23 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 24 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 108 | 4 |
| 25 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 79 | 3 |
| 26 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 59 | 2 |
| 27 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| 28 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 29 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 43 | 1 |
| 30 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 31 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| 32 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 33 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 34 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| 35 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 36 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 108 | 4 |
| 37 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 79 | 3 |
| 38 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 59 | 2 |
| 39 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 4 | 64 | 1 |
| 40 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 2 | | 1 |
| 41 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 43 | 1 |
| 42 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 43 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| 44 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 45 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 46 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| 47 | SORT GROUP BY | | 1 | 330 | |
| 48 | VIEW | | 1 | 330 | 26695 |
| 49 | SORT UNIQUE | | 1 | 130 | 26695 |
| 50 | CONCATENATION | | | | |
| 51 | HASH JOIN ANTI | | 1 | 130 | 13347 |
| 52 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 53 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 110 | 4 |
| 54 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 81 | 3 |
| 55 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 61 | 2 |
| 56 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| 57 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 58 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 45 | 1 |
| 59 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 60 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| 61 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 62 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 63 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| 64 | VIEW | | 164K| 3220K| 13341 |
| 65 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 66 | NESTED LOOPS | | 164K| 11M| 13341 |
| 67 | NESTED LOOPS | | 164K| 8535K| 10041 |
| 68 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 164K| 6924K| 8391 |
| 69 | INDEX SKIP SCAN | | 2131K| | 163 |
| 70 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 71 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 72 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| 73 | HASH JOIN ANTI | | 2 | 260 | 13347 |
| 74 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 75 | NESTED LOOPS | | 2 | 220 | 4 |
| 76 | NESTED LOOPS | | 2 | 162 | 3 |
| 77 | NESTED LOOPS | | 2 | 122 | 2 |
| 78 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 4 | 64 | 1 |
| 79 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 2 | | 1 |
| 80 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 45 | 1 |
| 81 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 82 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| 83 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 84 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 85 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| 86 | VIEW | | 164K| 3220K| 13341 |
| 87 | NESTED LOOPS | | | | |
| 88 | NESTED LOOPS | | 164K| 11M| 13341 |
| 89 | NESTED LOOPS | | 164K| 8535K| 10041 |
| 90 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 164K| 6924K| 8391 |
| 91 | INDEX SKIP SCAN | | 2131K| | 163 |
| 92 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 93 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 94 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| 95 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 875 | 20 |
| 96 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 846 | 19 |
| 97 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 800 | 18 |
| 98 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 776 | 17 |
| 99 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 752 | 16 |
| 100 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 641 | 15 |
| 101 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 576 | 14 |
| 102 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 554 | 13 |
| 103 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 487 | 12 |
| 104 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 434 | 11 |
| 105 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 368 | 10 |
| 106 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 102 | 9 |
| 107 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 1 | 85 | 8 |
| 108 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 68 | 7 |
| 109 | NESTED LOOPS | | 50 | 2700 | 6 |
| 110 | HASH JOIN | | 53 | 1696 | 5 |
| 111 | INLIST ITERATOR | | | | |
| 112 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| | 520 | 10400 | 3 |
| 113 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 520 | | 1 |
| 114 | INLIST ITERATOR | | | | |
| 115 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| | 91457 | 1071K| 1 |
| 116 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 2 | | 1 |
| 117 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| 118 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 119 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 14 | 1 |
| 120 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 121 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 17 | 1 |
| 122 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 123 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 17 | 1 |
| 124 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 125 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 266 | 1 |
| 126 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 127 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 66 | 1 |
| 128 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 129 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 53 | 1 |
| 130 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 131 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 67 | 1 |
| 132 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 133 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| 134 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 65 | 1 |
| 135 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 136 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 111 | 1 |
| 137 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 138 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 24 | 1 |
| 139 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 140 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 24 | 1 |
| 141 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 142 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 46 | 1 |
| 143 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
| 144 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| 145 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | | 1 | | 1 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The total cost of a statement is usually equal to or greater than the cost of any of its child operations. There are at least 4 exceptions to this rule.
Your plan looks like #3 but we can't be sure without looking at code.
1. FILTER
Execution plans may depend on conditions at run-time. These conditions cause FILTER operations that will dynamically decide which query block to execute. The example below uses a static condition but still demonstrates the concept. Part of the subquery is very expensive but the condition negates the whole thing.
explain plan for select * from dba_objects cross join dba_objects where 1 = 2;
select * from table(dbms_xplan.display(format => 'basic +cost'));
Plan hash value: 3258663795
--------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name | Cost (%CPU)|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 0 (0)|
| 1 | FILTER | | |
| 2 | MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN | | 11M (3)|
...
2. COUNT STOPKEY
Execution plans sum child operations up until the final cost. But child operations will not always finish. In the example below it may be correct to say that part of the plan costs 214. But because of the condition where rownum <= 1 only part of that child operation may run.
explain plan for
select /*+ no_query_transformation */ *
from (select * from dba_objects join dba_objects using (owner))
where rownum <= 1;
select * from table(dbms_xplan.display(format => 'basic +cost'));
Plan hash value: 2132093199
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name | Cost (%CPU)|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 4 (0)|
| 1 | COUNT STOPKEY | | |
| 2 | VIEW | | 4 (0)|
| 3 | VIEW | | 4 (0)|
| 4 | NESTED LOOPS | | 4 (0)|
| 5 | VIEW | DBA_OBJECTS | 2 (0)|
| 6 | UNION-ALL | | |
| 7 | HASH JOIN | | 3 (34)|
| 8 | INDEX FULL SCAN | I_USER2 | 1 (0)|
| 9 | VIEW | _CURRENT_EDITION_OBJ | 1 (0)|
| 10 | FILTER | | |
| 11 | HASH JOIN | | 214 (3)|
...
3. Subqueries in the SELECT column list
Cost aggregation does not include subqueries in the SELECT column list. A query like select ([expensive query]) from dual; will have a very small total cost. I don't understand the reason for this; Oracle estimates the subquery and he number of rows in the FROM, surely it could multiply them together for a total cost.
explain plan for
select dummy,(select count(*) from dba_objects cross join dba_objects) from dual;
select * from table(dbms_xplan.display(format => 'basic +cost'));
Plan hash value: 3705842531
---------------------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name | Cost (%CPU)|
---------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 2 (0)|
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | |
| 2 | MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN | | 11M (3)|
...
4. Other - rounding? bugs?
About 0.01% of plans still have unexplainable cost issues. I can't find any pattern among them. Perhaps it's just a rounding issue or some rare optimizer bugs. There will always be some weird cases with a any model as complicated as the optimizer.
Check for more exceptions
This query can find other exceptions, it returns all plans where the first cost is less than the maximum cost.
select *
from
(
--First and Max cost per plan.
select
sql_id, plan_hash_value, id, cost
,max(cost) keep (dense_rank first order by id)
over (partition by sql_id, plan_hash_value) first_cost
,max(cost)
over (partition by sql_id, plan_hash_value) max_cost
,max(case when operation = 'COUNT' and options = 'STOPKEY' then 1 else 0 end)
over (partition by sql_id, plan_hash_value) has_count_stopkey
,max(case when operation = 'FILTER' and options is null then 1 else 0 end)
over (partition by sql_id, plan_hash_value) has_filter
,count(distinct(plan_hash_value))
over () total_plans
from v$sql_plan
--where sql_id = '61a161nm1ttjj'
order by 1,2,3
)
where first_cost < max_cost
--It's easy to exclude FILTER and COUNT STOPKEY.
and has_filter = 0
and has_count_stopkey = 0
order by 1,2,3;

SphinxSE distinct empty result

I run this query in sphinx se console:
SELECT #distinct FROM all_ips GROUP BY ip1;
I get this result:
+------+--------+
| id | weight |
+------+--------+
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 9 | 1 |
| 15 | 1 |
| 16 | 1 |
| 17 | 1 |
| 20 | 1 |
| 21 | 1 |
| 25 | 1 |
| 26 | 1 |
| 27 | 1 |
| 31 | 1 |
| 32 | 1 |
| 38 | 1 |
| 39 | 1 |
| 40 | 1 |
| 46 | 1 |
| 50 | 1 |
| 51 | 1 |
+------+--------+
20 rows in set (0.57 sec)
How can i get number of unique values? Why #distinct column doesn't show up in results?
1) I dont think that is sphinxSE - do you really mean sphinxQL? That looks more like sphinxQL.
2) Distinct of what column? You need to sell sphinx what attribute you want to count the distinct values in. In sphinxQL use COUNT(DISTINCT column_name)
You will require simple SQL statement for getting count. Something like this
SELECT count(ip1),ip1
FROM all_ips
GROUP BY ip1;

MySQL equivalent of ORACLES rank()

Oracle has 2 functions - rank() and dense_rank() - which i've found very useful for some applications. I am doing something in mysql now and was wondering if they have something equivalent to those?
Nothing directly equivalent, but you can fake it with some (not terribly efficient) self-joins. Some sample code from a collection of MySQL query howtos:
SELECT v1.name, v1.votes, COUNT(v2.votes) AS Rank
FROM votes v1
JOIN votes v2 ON v1.votes < v2.votes OR (v1.votes=v2.votes and v1.name = v2.name)
GROUP BY v1.name, v1.votes
ORDER BY v1.votes DESC, v1.name DESC;
+-------+-------+------+
| name | votes | Rank |
+-------+-------+------+
| Green | 50 | 1 |
| Black | 40 | 2 |
| White | 20 | 3 |
| Brown | 20 | 3 |
| Jones | 15 | 5 |
| Smith | 10 | 6 |
+-------+-------+------+
how about this "dense_rank implement" in MySQL
CREATE TABLE `person` (
`id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`first_name` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`age` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`gender` char(1) DEFAULT NULL);
INSERT INTO `person` VALUES
(1,'Bob',25,'M'),
(2,'Jane',20,'F'),
(3,'Jack',30,'M'),
(4,'Bill',32,'M'),
(5,'Nick',22,'M'),
(6,'Kathy',18,'F'),
(7,'Steve',36,'M'),
(8,'Anne',25,'F'),
(9,'Mike',25,'M');
the data before dense_rank() like this
mysql> select * from person;
+------+------------+------+--------+
| id | first_name | age | gender |
+------+------------+------+--------+
| 1 | Bob | 25 | M |
| 2 | Jane | 20 | F |
| 3 | Jack | 30 | M |
| 4 | Bill | 32 | M |
| 5 | Nick | 22 | M |
| 6 | Kathy | 18 | F |
| 7 | Steve | 36 | M |
| 8 | Anne | 25 | F |
| 9 | Mike | 25 | M |
+------+------------+------+--------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
the data after dense_rank() like this,including "partition by" function
+------------+--------+------+------+
| first_name | gender | age | rank |
+------------+--------+------+------+
| Anne | F | 25 | 1 |
| Jane | F | 20 | 2 |
| Kathy | F | 18 | 3 |
| Steve | M | 36 | 1 |
| Bill | M | 32 | 2 |
| Jack | M | 30 | 3 |
| Mike | M | 25 | 4 |
| Bob | M | 25 | 4 |
| Nick | M | 22 | 6 |
+------------+--------+------+------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
the query statement is
select first_name,t1.gender,age,FIND_IN_SET(age,t1.age_set) as rank from person t2,
(select gender,group_concat(age order by age desc) as age_set from person group by gender) t1
where t1.gender=t2.gender
order by t1.gender,rank

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