Oracle 11 joining with view has high cost - oracle

I'm having some difficulty with joining a view to another table. This is on an Oracle RAC system running 11.2
I'll try and give as much detail as possible without going into specific table structures as my company would not like that.
You all know how this works. "Hey, can you write some really ugly software to implement our crazy ideas?"
The idea of what they wanted me to do was to make a view where the end user wouldn't know if they were going after the new table or the old table so one of the tables is a parameter table that will return "ON" or "OFF" and is used in the case statements.
There are some not too difficult but nested case statements in the select clause
I have a view:
create view my_view as
select t1.a as a, t1.b as b, t1.c as c,
sum(case when t2.a = 'xx' then case when t3.a then ... ,
case when t2.a = 'xx' then case when t3.a then ... ,
from table1 t1
join table t2 on (t1.a = t2.a etc...)
full outer join t3 on (t1.a = t3.a etc...)
full outer join t4 on (t1.a = t4.a etc...)
group by t1.a, t1.b, t2.c, and all the ugly case statements...
Now, when I run the query
select * from my_view where a='xxx' and b='yyy' and c='zzz'
the query runs great and the cost is 10.
However, when I join this view with another table everything falls apart.
select * from my_table mt join my_view mv on (mt.a = mv.a and mt.b=mv.b and mt.c=mv.c) where ..."
everything falls apart with a cost though the roof.
What I think is happening is the predicates are not getting pushed to the view. As such, the view is now doing full tables scans and joining everything to everything and then finally removing all the rows.
Every hint, tweak, or anything I've done doesn't appear to help.
When looking at the plan it looks like it has the predicates.
But this happens after everything is joined.
Sorry if this is cryptic but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Since you have the view with a "GROUP BY", predicates could not be pushed to the inner query
Also, you have the group by functions in a case statement, which could also make it worse for the optimizer
Oracle introduces enhancements to Optimizer every version/release/patch. It is hard to say what is supported in the version you're running. However, you can try:
See if removing the case from the GROUP BY function will make any difference
Otherwise, you have to take the GROUP BY and GROUP BY functions from the view to the outer most query

After many keyboard indentations on my forehead I may have tricked Oracle into pushing the predicates. I don't know exactly why this works but simplifying things may have helped.
I changed all my ON clauses to USING clauses and in this way the column names now match the columns from which I'm joining to. On some other predicates that were constants I added in a where clause to the view.
The end result is I can now join this view with another table and the cost is reasonable and the plan shows that the predicates are being pushed.
Thank you to everybody who looked at this problem.

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ORA-02019:connection description for remote database not found - left join in a view

I have 3 tables:
table1: id, person_code
table2: id, address, person_code_foreing(same with that one from table 1), admission_date_1
table3: id, id_table2, admission_date_2, something
(the tables are fictive)
I'm trying to make a view who takes infos from this 3 tables using left join, i'm doing like this because in the first table i have some record who don't have the person_code in the others tables but I want also this info to be returned by the view:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW schema.my_view
SELECT t1.name, t2.adress, t3.something
from schema.table1#ambient1 t1
left join schema.table2#ambient1 t2
on t1.person_code = t2.person_code_foreing
left join schema.table3#ambient1 t3
on t3.id_table2 = t2.id
and t1.admission_date_1=t2.admission_date_2;
This view needs to be created in another ambient (ambient2).
I tried using a subquery, there I need also a left join to use, and this thing is very confusing because I don't get it, the subquery and the left join are the big no-no?! Or just de left-join?!
Has this happened to anyone?
How did you risolved it?
Thanks a lot.
ORA-2019 indicates that your database link (#ambient1) does not exist, or is not visible to the current user. You can confirm by checking the ALL_DB_LINKS view, which should list all links to which the user has access:
select owner, db_link from all_db_links;
Also keep in mind that Oracle will perform the joins in the database making the call, not the remote database, so you will almost certainly have to pull the entire contents of all three tables over the network to be written into TEMP for the join and then thrown away, every time you run a query. You will also lose the benefit of any indexes on the data and most likely wind up with full table scans on the temp tables within your local database.
I don't know if this is an option for you, but from a performance perspective and given that it isn't joining with anything in the local database, it would make much more sense to create the view in the remote database and just query that through the database link. That way all of the joins are performed efficiently where the data lives, only the result set is pushed over the network, and your client database SQL becomes much simpler.
I managed to make it work, but apparently ambient2 doesn't like my "left-join", and i used only a subquery and the operator (+), this is how it worked:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW schema.my_view
SELECT t1.name, all.adress, all.something
from schema.table1#ambient1 t1,(select * from
schema.table3#ambient1 t3, schema.table2#ambient1 t2
where t3.id_table2 = t2.id(+)
and (t1.admission_date_1=t2.admission_date_2 or t1.admission_date is null))
all
where t1.person_code = t2.person_code_foreing(+);
I tried to test if a query in ambient2 using a right-join works (with 2 tables created there) and it does. I thought there is a problem with that ambient..
For me, there is no sense why in my case this kind of join retrieves that error.
The versions are different?! I don't know, and I don't find any official documentation about that.
Maybe some of you guys have any clue..
There is a mistery for me :))
Thanks.

When do we use WITH clause, and what are main benefits of it?

I was working on task about optimization queries. One of the improvement ways was using WITH clause. I notice that it did very good job, and it lead to shorter time of execution, but i am not sure now, when should I use WITH clause and is there any risk of using it?
Here is one of the queries that I am working on :
WITH MY_TABLE AS
( SELECT PROD_KY,
sum(GROUPISPRIVATE) AS ISPRIVATE,
sum(GROUPISSHARED) AS ISSHARED
FROM
(
SELECT GRP_PROD_CUSTOMER.PROD_KY,
1 as ISPRIVATE,
0 as ISSHARED
FROM CUSTOMER
JOIN GRP_CUSTOMER ON GRP_CUSTOMER.CUST_KY = CUSTOMER.CUST_KY
JOIN GRP_PROD_CUSTOMER ON GRP_PROD_CUSTOMER.GRP_KY = GRP_CUSTOMER.GRP_KY
GROUP BY GRP_PROD_CUSTOMER.PROD_KY
)
GROUP BY PROD_KY
)
SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE;
is there any risk of using it?
Yes. Oracle may decide to materialize the subquery, which means writing its result set to disk and then reading it back (except it might not mean that in 12cR2 or later). That unexpected I/O could be a performance hit. Not always, and usually we can trust the optimizer to make the correct choice. However, Oracle has provided us with hints to tell the optimizer how to handle the result set: /*+ materialize */ to um materialize it and /*+ inline */ to keep it in memory.
I start with this potential downside because I think it's important to understand that the WITH clause is not a silver bullet and it won't improve every single query, and may even degrade performance. For instance I share the scepticism of the other commenters that the query you posted is in any way faster because you re-wrote it as a common table expression.
Generally, the use cases for the WITH clause are:
We want to use the result set from the subquery multiple times
with cte as
( select blah from meh )
select *
from t1
join t2 on t1.id = t2.id
where t1.col1 in ( select blah from cte )
and t2.col2 not in ( select blah from cte)
We want to be build a cascade of subqueries:
with cte as
( select id, blah from meh )
, cte2 as
( select t2.*, cte.blah
from cte
join t2 on t2.id = cte.id)
, cte3 as
( select t3.*, cte2.*
from cte2
join t3 on t3.col2 = cte2.something )
….
This second approach is beguiling and can be useful for implementing complex business logic in pure SQL. But it can lead to a procedural mindset and lose the power sets and joins. This too is a risk.
We want to use recursive WITH clause. This allows us to replace Oracle's own CONNECT BY syntax with a more standard approach. Find out more
In 12c and later we can write user-defined functions in the WITH clause. This is a powerful feature, especially for users who need to implement some logic in PL/SQL but only have SELECT access to the database. Find out more
For the record I have seen some very successful and highly performative uses of the second type of WITH clause. However I have also seen uses of WITH when it would have been just as easy to write an inline view. For instance, this is just using the WITH clause as syntactic sugar ...
with cte as
( select id, blah from meh )
select t2.*, cte.blah
from t2
join cte on cte.id = t2.id
… and would be clearer as ...
select t2.*, cte.blah
from t2
join ( select id, blah from meh ) cte on cte.id = t2.id
WITH clause is introduced in oracle to match SQL-99 standard.
The main purpose is to reduce the complexity and repetitive code.
Lets say you need to find the average salary of one department and then need to fetch all the department(d1) with more than average salary of that department(d1).
This can make multiple references to the subquery more efficient and readable.
The MATERIALIZE and INLINE optimizer hints can be used to influence the decision. The undocumented MATERIALIZE hint tells the optimizer to resolve the subquery as a global temporary table, while the INLINE hint tells it to process the query inline. Decision to use the hint is purely depends on logic that we are going to implement in query.
In oracle 12c, declaration of PL/SQL Block in WITH clause is introduced.
You must refer it from oracle documents.
Cheers!!
Your query is rather useless in terms of WITH statement (aka Common Table Expression, CTE)
Anyway, using the WITH clause brings several benefits:
The query is better readable (in my opinion)
You can use the same subquery several times in the main query. You can even cascade them.
Oracle can materialize the subquery, i.e. Oracle may create a temporary table and stores result of the subquery in it. This can give better performance.
The WITH clause may be processed as an inline view or resolved as a temporary table. The SQL WITH clause is very similar to the use of Global temporary tables. This technique is often used to improve query speed for complex subqueries and enables the Oracle optimizer to push the necessary predicates into the views.
The advantage of the latter is that repeated references to the subquery may be more efficient as the data is easily retrieved from the temporary table, rather than being requeried by each reference. You should assess the performance implications of the WITH clause on a case-by-case basis.
You can read more here:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_with_clause.htm
https://oracle-base.com/articles/misc/with-clause
one point to consider is, that different RDBMS handle the with clause - aka common table expressions (CTE) aka subquery factoring - differently:
Oracle may use a materialization or an inlining (as already explained in the answer provided by APC)
postgres always uses a materialization in releases up to 11 (so here a CTE is an optimization fence). In postgres 12 the behaviour changes and is similar to Oracles approach: https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/with-queries-present-future-common-table-expressions. You even have something that almost looks like a hint (though it is known that postgres does not use hints...)
in SQL Server currently a CTE is always inlined, as explained in https://erikdarlingdata.com/2019/08/what-would-materialized-ctes-look-like-in-sql-server/
So depending on the RDBMS you use and its version your mileage may vary.

Replacing NOT IN with NOT EXISTS and an OUTER JOIN in Oracle Database 12c

I understand that the performance of our queries is improved when we use EXISTS and NOT EXISTS in the place of IN and NOT IN, however, is performance improved further when we replace NOT IN with an OUTER JOIN as opposed to NOT EXISTS?
For example, the following query selects all models from a PRODUCT table that are not in another table called PC. For the record, no model values in the PRODUCT or PC tables are null:
select model
from product
where not exists(
select *
from pc
where product.model = pc.model);
The following OUTER JOIN will display the same results:
select product.model
from product left join pc
on pc.model = product.model
where pc.model is null;
Seeing as these both return the same values, which option should we use to better improve the performance of our queries?
The query plan will tell you. It will depend on the data and tables. In the case of OUTER JOIN and NOT EXISTS they are the same.
However to your opening sentence, NOT IN and NOT EXISTS are not the same if NULL is accepted on model. In this case you say model cannot be null so you might find they all have the same plan anyway. However when making this assumption, the database must be told there cannot be nulls (using NOT NULL) as opposed to there simply not being any. If you don't it will make different plans for each query which may result in different performance depending on your actual data. This is generally true and particularly true for ORACLE which does not index NULLs.
Check out EXPLAIN PLAN

Oracle SQL sub query vs inner join

At first, I seen the select statement on Oracle Docs.
I have some question about oracle select behaviour, when my query contain select,join,where.
see this below for information:
My sample table:
[ P_IMAGE_ID ]
IMAGE_ID (PK)
FILE_NAME
FILE_TYPE
...
...
[ P_IMG_TAG ]
IMG_TAG_ID (PK)
IMAGE_ID (FK)
TAG
...
...
My requirement are: get distinct of image when it's tag is "70702".
Method 1: Select -> Join -> Where -> Distinct
SELECT DISTINCT PID.IMAGE_ID
, PID.FILE_NAME
FROM P_IMAGE_ID PID
INNER JOIN P_IMG_TAG PTAG
ON PTAG.IMAGE_ID = PID.IMAGE_ID
WHERE PTAG.TAG = '70702';
I think the query behaviour should be like:
join table -> hint where cause -> distinct select
I use Oracle SQL developer to get the explain plan:
Method 1 cost 76.
Method 2: Select -> Where -> Where -> Distinct
SELECT DISTINCT PID.IMAGE_ID
, PID.FILE_NAME
FROM P_IMAGE_ID PID
WHERE PID.IMAGE_ID IN
(
SELECT PTAG.IMAGE_ID
FROM P_IMG_TAG PTAG
WHERE PTAG.TAG = '70702'
);
I think the second query behaviour should be like:
hint where cause -> hint where cause -> distinct select
I use Oracle SQL developer to get the explain plan too:
Method 2 cost 76 too. Why?
I believe when I try where cause first for reduce the database process and avoid join table that query performance should be better than the table join query, but now when I test it, I am confused, why 2 method cost are equal ?
Or am I misunderstood something ?
List of my question here:
Why 2 method above cost are equal ?
If the result of sub select Tag = '70702' more than thousand or million or more, use join table should be better alright ?
If the result of sub select Tag = '70702' are least, use sub select for reduce data query process is better alright ?
When I use method 1 Select -> Join -> Where -> Distinct mean the database process table joining before hint where cause alright ?
Someone told me when i move hint cause Tag = '70702' into join cause
(ie. INNER JOIN P_IMG_TAG PTAG ON PAT.IMAGE_ID = PID.IMAGE_ID AND PTAG.TAG = '70702' ) it's performance may be better that's alright ?
I read topic subselect vs outer join and subquery or inner join but both are for SQL Server, I don't sure that may be like Oracle database.
The DBMS takes your query and executes something. But it doesn't execute steps that correspond to SQL statement parts in the order they appear in an SQL statement.
Read about "relational query optimization", which could just as well be called "relational query implementation". Eg for Oracle.
Any language processor takes declarations and calls as input and implements the described behaviour in terms of internal data structures and operations, maybe through one or more levels of "intermediate code" running on a "virtual machine", eventually down to physical machines. But even just staying in the input language, SQL queries can be rearranged into other SQL queries that return the same value but perform significantly better under simple and general implementation assumptions. Just as you know that your question's queries always return the same thing for a given database, the DBMS can know. Part of how it knows is that there are many rules for taking a relational algebra expression and generating a different but same-valued expression. Certain rewrite rules apply under certain limited circumstances. There are rules that take into consideration SQL-level relational things like primary keys, unique columns, foreign keys and other constraints. Other rules use implementation-oriented SQL-level things like indexes and statistics. This is the "relational query rewriting" part of relational query optimization.
Even when two different but equivalent queries generate different plans, the cost can be similar because the plans are so similar. Here, both a HASH and SORT index are UNIQUE. (It would be interesting to know what the few top plans were for each of your queries. It is quite likely that those few are the same for both, but that the plan that is more directly derived from the particular input expression is the one that is offered when there's little difference.)
The way to get the DBMS to find good query plans is to write the most natural expression of a query that you can find.

Table Join Efficiency Question

When joining across tables (as in the examples below), is there an efficiency difference between joining on the tables or joining subqueries containing only the needed columns?
In other words, is there a difference in efficiency between these two tables?
SELECT result
FROM result_tbl
JOIN test_tbl USING (test_id)
JOIN sample_tbl USING (sample_id)
JOIN (SELECT request_id
FROM request_tbl
WHERE request_status='A') USING(request_id)
vs
SELECT result
FROM (SELECT result, test_id FROM result_tbl)
JOIN (SELECT test_id, sample_id FROM test_tbl) USING(test_id)
JOIN (SELECT sample_id FROM sample_tbl) USING(sample_id)
JOIN (SELECT request_id
FROM request_tbl
WHERE request_status='A') USING(request_id)
The only way to find out for sure is to run both with tracing turned on and then look at the trace file. But in all probability they will be treated the same: the optimizer will merge all the inline views into the main statement and come up with the same query plan.
It doesn't matter. It may actually be WORSE since you are taking control away from the optimizer which generally knows best.
However, remember if you are doing a JOIN and only including a column from one of the tables that it is QUITE OFTEN better to re-write it as a series of EXISTS statements -- because that's what you really mean. JOINs (with some exceptions) will join matching rows which is a lot more work for the optimizer to do.
e.g.
SELECT t1.id1
FROM table1 t1
INNER JOIN table2 ON something = something
should almost always be
SELECT id1
FROM table1 t1
WHERE EXISTS( SELECT *
FROM table2
WHERE something = something )
For simple queries the optimizer may reduce the query plans into identical ones. Check it out on your DBMS.
Also this is a code smell and probably should be changed:
JOIN (SELECT request_id
FROM request_tbl
WHERE request_status='A')
to
SELECT result
FROM request
WHERE EXISTS(...)
AND request_status = 'A'
No difference.
You can tell by running EXPLAIN PLAN on both those statements - Oracle knows that all you want is the "result" column, so it only does the minimum necessary to get the data it needs - you should find that the plans will be identical.
The Oracle optimiser does, sometimes, "materialize" a subquery (i.e. run the subquery and keep the results in memory for later reuse), but this is rare and only occurs when the optimiser believes this will result in a performance improvement; in any case, Oracle will do this "materialization" whether you specified the columns in the subqueries or not.
Obviously if the only place the "results" column is stored is in the blocks (along with the rest of the data), Oracle has to visit those blocks - but it will only keep the relevant info (the "result" column and other relevant columns, e.g. "test_id") in memory when processing the query.

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