Week 4: Case Studies

Unit 7: Case 2 – Applying the Solution

Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Reduce intermediate results
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY A b
B d
C z
LEFT OUTER
JOIN

20 (20) rows 1,000,535 (10,000,000) rows

Inclusive Time : 2.2 ms Inclusive Time : 1,637.3 ms

Exclusive Time : 2.2 ms Exclusive Time : 1,637.3 ms

Column Search #1 Column Search #2

Matched records
LIMIT GROUP BY
b 1
d 1

Order By INNER JOIN “What if we make matched records to be

processed in Column Search #2 in order
to reduce the number of records to be
T1 T2 T3 materialized in column search 2?"

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Reduce intermediate results
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : Fast

Exclusive Time : Fast

Column Search #3
Matched records
ORDER BY b 1
A b
B d d 1
C z N U L L V A L U E
LEFT OUTER
JOIN Not-Matched records

20 (20) rows Small (10,000,000) rows Column Search #2 would return a small
Inclusive Time : 2.2 ms Inclusive Time : Fast
set of records.
Exclusive Time : 2.2 ms Exclusive Time : Fast

Column Search #1 Column Search #2

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN “What if we make matched records to be

processed in Column Search #2 in order
to reduce the number of records to be
T1 T2 T3 materialized in column search 2?"

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Add INNER JOIN T1.A = T4.C
INNER JOIN

T1

Column Search #3
Matched records We can get matched records
ORDER BY A b b 1 using INNER JOIN
B d d 1
C z N U L L V A L U E
LEFT OUTER
JOIN Not-Matched records

Column Search #1 Column Search #2

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Add INNER JOIN

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

LEFT OUTER
JOIN

Column Search #1 Column Search #2

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN T1.A = T4.C

T1 T2 T3 T1

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Rewrite query

SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H

FROM T1
LEFT OUTER JOIN (
SELECT T2.C
T2.C,
SUM(CASE WHEN T2.E>10 THEN 10 ELSE 0 END) AS E,
SUM(CASE WHEN T3.H<=50 THEN 0 ELSE T3.H END) AS H
FROM T2 JOIN T3 ON (T2.C=T3.F AND T2.D=T3.G)
GROUP BY T2.C ) T4
ON (T1.A=T4.C)
T4.C
ORDER BY T1.A
LIMIT 20 WITH HINT (IGNORE_PLAN_CACHE);

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Rewrite query

SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H

FROM T1
LEFT OUTER JOIN (
SELECT T2.C,
SUM(CASE WHEN T2.E>10 THEN 10 ELSE 0 END) AS E,
SUM(CASE WHEN T3.H<=50 THEN 0 ELSE T3.H END) AS H
FROM T2 JOIN T3 ON (T2.C=T3.F AND T2.D=T3.G)
INNER JOIN T1 ON (T1.A=T2.C)
GROUP BY T2.C ) T4
ON (T1.A=T4.C)
ORDER BY T1.A
LIMIT 20 WITH HINT (IGNORE_PLAN_CACHE);

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Rewrite query – Verification

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

LEFT OUTER
JOIN

20 (100,000) rows 9,951 (100,000) rows

Column Search #1 Column Search #2

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN T1.A = T4.C

T1 T2 T3 T1

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Rewrite query – Add INNER JOIN into column search #2

Column Search #3

SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H

FROM T1
LEFT OUTER JOIN (
SELECT T2.C,
SUM(CASE WHEN T2.E>10 THEN 10 ELSE 0 END) AS E,
SUM(CASE WHEN T3.H<=50 THEN 0 ELSE T3.H END) AS H
FROM T2 JOIN T3 ON (T2.C=T3.F AND T2.D=T3.G)
INNER JOIN T1 ON (T2.C = T1.A)
GROUP BY T2.C ) T4 ON (T1.A=T4.C)
ORDER BY T1.A Column Search #1 Column Search #2
LIMIT 20 WITH HINT (IGNORE_PLAN_CACHE);

Statement 'SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H FROM T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT T2.C,...'
successfully executed in 98 ms 184 µs (server processing time: 11 ms 26 µs)
Fetched 20 row(s) in 0 ms 185 µs (server processing time: 0 ms 0 µs)

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Case 2 – Applying the Solution
Rewrite query – Add INNER JOIN into column search #2

Column Search #3

SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H

Statement
FROM T1 'SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H FROM T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT T2.C,...'
LEFT OUTER JOIN (
successfully executed in 98 ms 184 µs (server processing time:
SELECT T2.C,
SUM(CASE WHEN T2.E>10 THEN 10 ELSE 0 END) AS E,
11 ms 26 µs)
Fetched 20 row(s) in 0 ms 185 µs (server processing time: 0 ms 0 µs)
SUM(CASE WHEN T3.H<=50 THEN 0 ELSE T3.H END) AS H
FROM T2 JOIN T3 ON (T2.C=T3.F AND T2.D=T3.G)
INNER JOIN T1 ON (T2.C = T1.A)
GROUP BY T2.C ) T4 ON (T1.A=T4.C)
ORDER BY T1.A
Adding INNER JOIN reduces intermediate
Column Search #1results and
Column Search #2
LIMIT 20 WITH HINT (IGNORE_PLAN_CACHE);
execution time to under 100ms

Statement 'SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H FROM T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT T2.C,...'
successfully executed in 98 ms 184 µs (server processing time: 11 ms 26 µs)
Fetched 20 row(s) in 0 ms 185 µs (server processing time: 0 ms 0 µs)

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