在Oracle9i中我们知道能够使用跳跃式索引扫描(Index Skip Scan).然而,能利用跳跃式索引扫描的情况其实是有些限制的.
从Oracle的文档中我们可以找到这样的话:
Index Skip Scans
Index skip scans improve index scans by nonprefix columns.
Often, scanning index blocks is faster than scanning table data blocks.
Skip scanning lets a composite index be split logically into smaller subindexes.
In skip scanning, the initial column of the composite index is not specified in the query.
In other Words, it is skipped.
The number of logical subindexes is determined by the number of distinct values in the initial column.
Skip scanning is advantageous if there are few distinct values in the leading column of the composite
index and many distinct values in the nonleading key of the index.
也可以这样说,优化器根据索引中的前导列(索引到的第一列)的唯一值的数量决定是否使用Skip Scan.
我们首先做个测试：
SQL CREATE TABLE test AS
2SELECT ROWNUM a,ROWNUM-1 b ,ROWNUM-2 c,ROWNUM-3 d,ROWNUM-4 e
3FROM all_objects
4/
SQL SELECT DISTINCT COUNT (a) FROM test;
COUNT(A)
----------
28251
表已创建。
SQL
SQL CREATE INDEX test_idx ON test(a,b,c)
2/
索引已创建。
SQL ANALYZE TABLE test COMPUTE STATISTICS
2FOR TABLE
3FOR ALL INDEXES
4FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS
5/
表已分析。
SQL SET autotrace traceonly eXPlain
SQL SELECT *FROM test WHERE b = 99
2/
Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
0SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=36 Card=1 Bytes=26)
10 TABLE Access (FULL) OF 'TEST' (Cost=36 Card=1 Bytes=26)
--可见这里CBO选择了全表扫描.
--我们接着做另一个测试:
SQL drop table test;
表已丢弃。
SQL CREATE TABLE test
2AS
3SELECT DECODE(MOD(ROWNUM,2), 0, '1', '2' ) a,
4ROWNUM-1 b,
5ROWNUM-2 c,
6ROWNUM-3 d,
7ROWNUM-4 e
8FROM all_objects
9/
表已创建。
SQL set autotrace off
SQL select distinct a from test;
A
--
1
2
--A列只有两个唯一值
SQL CREATE INDEX test_idx ON test(a,b,c)
2/
索引已创建。
SQL ANALYZE TABLE test COMPUTE STATISTICS
2FOR TABLE
3FOR ALL INDEXES
4FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS
5/
表已分析。
SQL set autotrace traceonly explain
SQL SELECT *FROM test WHERE b = 99
2/
Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
0SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=4 Card=1 Bytes=24)
10 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'TEST' (Cost=4 Card=1 Bytes=24)
21 INDEX (SKIP SCAN) OF 'TEST_IDX' (NON-UNIQUE) (Cost=3 Card=1)
Oracle的优化器(这里指的是CBO)能对查询应用Index Skip Scans至少要有几个条件:
1 优化器认为是合适的.
2 索引中的前导列的唯一值的数量能满足一定的条件.
3 优化器要知道前导列的值分布(通过分析/统计表得到)
4 合适的SQL语句
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