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The key difference between explain plan and autotrace is that explain plan produces an execution plan without executing the SQL statement, while autotrace produces an execution plan after executing the statement. Explain plan keeps the row counts the same, while autotrace will reflect any changes to data, like a row being deleted. Autotrace also includes additional runtime statistics beyond just the execution plan.

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Difference Between Explain Plan and Autotrace: %cpu Time

The key difference between explain plan and autotrace is that explain plan produces an execution plan without executing the SQL statement, while autotrace produces an execution plan after executing the statement. Explain plan keeps the row counts the same, while autotrace will reflect any changes to data, like a row being deleted. Autotrace also includes additional runtime statistics beyond just the execution plan.

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10/15/2015 Knowledge is Here...

: Difference between explain plan and autotrace

Difference between explain plan and autotrace
The main difference between explain plan and autotrace is only that expalin plan produces execution plan without execute the statement where as
autrace gave execution plan after execution of the statement.

EXPLAIN PLAN

SQL> select count(*) from emp;
  COUNT(*)
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
        14

SQL> explain plan for delete from emp where ename = 'SMITH';
Explained.
SQL> select * from table(dbms_xplan.display);
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
Plan hash value: 161811703
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
| Id  | Operation          | Name | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
|   0 | DELETE STATEMENT   |      |     1 |    19 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  DELETE            | EMP  |       |       |            |          |
|*  2 |   TABLE ACCESS FULL| EMP  |     1 |    19 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

SQL> select count(*) from emp;
  COUNT(*)
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
        14 
 

(OUTPUT SPACING HAS BEEN MODIFIED , dont try to match it)

AUTOTRACE

SQL> select count(*) from emp;
  COUNT(*)
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
        14
SQL> set autotrace on
SQL> delete from emp where ename = 'SMITH';
1 row deleted.

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
| Id  | Operation          | Name | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Ti
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
|   0 | DELETE STATEMENT   |      |     1 |    19 |     3   (0)| 00
|   1 |  DELETE            | EMP  |       |       |            |
|*  2 |   TABLE ACCESS FULL| EMP  |     1 |    19 |     3   (0)| 00
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

Statistics
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
          1  recursive calls
          7  db block gets
          7  consistent gets
          2  physical reads
       1152  redo size
        673  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        610  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          3  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          1  sorts (memory)
          0  sorts (disk)
          1  rows processed

SQL> set autotrace off

SQL> select count(*) from emp;
  COUNT(*)
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
        13

Now You can see the difference that in case of explain plan the row count of table remain same ,
but in case of autotrace one row has been deleted and then it produce the execution plan.

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