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The strategy selected by the query optimizer to process a query.
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Postgres query planner join selectivity greater than 1?
I am using PostgreSQL 14.17.
I am trying to debug a query planner failure in a bigger query, but I think I've narrowed down the
problem to a self-join on a join table:
SELECT t2.item_id
FROM ...
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Dynamic sampling works differently than documented
Dynamic sampling in Oracle versions 12c to 19 is documented as functioning the same if it is enabled via the init parameter or by hinting.
This does not seem to be true.
I have tested this in customer ...
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Gather Streams plan operator bad performance
How to explain and troubleshoot the "final" Gather Streams query plan operator, which takes seconds, while the previous operators make it within one second?
These are the left-most plan ...
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Union does not always eliminate duplicates
I have the following query and expect that as a result I will have a list of IDs without duplicates. But sometimes it produces duplicates (1-2 on 4 million rows).
Why can it happen? I run it with the ...
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Same query, different execution plan, massive runtime impact
We have a JavaEE application that calls a stored procedure (SP) for some kind of search form. It's a massive query utilizing multiple joins and conditions.
We now observed, that this SP seems to use a ...
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Why does Postgres use filter instead of index scan when there are non-negligible number of null records?
This is my table:
learning_postgres=# create table r(id serial primary key, x int not null, y int);
CREATE TABLE
learning_postgres=# create index r_x_btree_idx on r using btree (x);
CREATE INDEX
...
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Clustered Index Update operator performing excessive Logical Reads after query change
If I have the following query in the Stack Overflow2010 database
UPDATE dbo.Posts
SET Title =
CASE
WHEN CreationDate <= '2008-01-01T00:00:00'
THEN 'A'
...
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Query runs faster with new plan but same old statistics
OK, this sounds like the standard My query was faster yesterday question. I hope it's not.
I have a query that usually runs within seconds (e.g. like 4 secs). Last night, it ran for 12 hours before we ...
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Unnecessary sort with TOP PERCENT?
Setup
-- Create a heap table of numbers from 1 to 100
SELECT TOP (100)
i = IDENTITY(int, 1, 1)
INTO #T
FROM master.dbo.spt_values;
-- Add a clustered primary key
ALTER TABLE #T
ADD PRIMARY ...
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Order and nature of columns in select list of sorted UNION query affects performance
I am observing significant performance impact of select lists in sorted UNION queries.
The general form of UNION queries I am working with is:
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT <select_list> FROM <...
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Postgres JOIN with a GROUP BY subquery optimization
I'm trying to optimize a PostgreSQL view that aggregates data from one table and then joins it with multiple other tables based on specific conditions. However, the execution plan isn't performing as ...
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Performance issues in parameterized queries accessing a view in SQL Server
I am currently facing an issue with parameterized queries in SQL Server that I do not understand where it is rooted in.
I broke it down to a simple example:
Let's assume a table that holds data about ...
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Why does adding an extra value in the IN clause speed up this query?
I'm trying to understand why a specific query in MariaDB is running faster when adding more values in the IN clause. With more values in the IN clause, it would actually retrieve more data, yet the ...
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why does the UnmatchedIndex warning appear in the execution plan, even though the index is being used?
so in AdventureWorks22, I created an index like:
create index IX_FirstName on Person.Person(PersonType,NameStyle)
where Firstname = 'Ken'
I wanted to see the error in the execution plan
so I declared ...
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why i can't see the reason behind early termination in the XML?
I was running this query db fiddle
and in the XML I could not find the reason behind early termination
now when I used trace flag 8675 The output was:
End of simplification, time: 0.001 net: 0.001 ...
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