Week 4: Case Studies

Unit 5: Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint

Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

E
B
A
D
T1 T2 T3
E
100,000 rows from T1
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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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

LIMIT GROUP BY

A
B
C Order By INNER JOIN
D
E
Sort records
T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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

A Column Search #1 Column Search #2

B
C LIMIT GROUP BY
Return only 20 rows

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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

A Column Search #1 Column Search #2

B
C LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

a 1
b 2
c 3
T1 T2 T3 d 4
e 5

T2 T3
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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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

A Column Search #1 Column Search #2

B
C LIMIT GROUP BY
a 1
b 2
c 3
Order By d 4
INNER JOIN e 5

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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

A Column Search #1 Column Search #2

B a 1
C LIMIT GROUP BY a 2
b 1
c 3
c 4
T2.C=T3.F AND T2.D=T3.G
Order By d 1
INNER JOIN e 5
e 6

The join produces huge intermediate result

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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

A Column Search #1 Column Search #2

B a 1
C LIMIT GROUP BY a 2
b 1
c 3
c 4
Order By d 1
INNER JOIN e 5
e 6

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

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
Grouping Column

A Column Search #1 Column Search #2

B a 1
C LIMIT GROUP BY a 2
b 1
c 3
c 4
Order By d 1
INNER JOIN e 5
e 6

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3

ORDER BY

LEFT OUTER JOIN

20 (20) rows 1,000,535 (10,000,000) rows The Group By still returns a lot of records.
Inclusive Time : 2.2 ms Inclusive Time : 1,637.3 ms
This is the bottleneck.
Exclusive Time : 2.2 ms Exclusive Time : 1,637.3 ms
Grouping Column

A Column Search #1 Column Search #2

B a
C LIMIT GROUP BY b
c
d
e
Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3
a
b
ORDER BY
A c
B d
C e

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

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3 Join keys

a
b
ORDER BY
A b c
B d d
C z e

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

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3 Join keys

a
b
ORDER BY
A b c
B d d
C z e

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

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3
Matched records
ORDER BY
A b b
B d 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

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Understand data flow
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms The intermediate result can be reduced by this
join because the left child has only 20 rows
Column Search #3
Matched records
ORDER BY
A b b
B d d
C z N U L L V A L U E

LEFT OUTER JOIN Non-matched records

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

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Push down key operators
20 (20) rows

Inclusive Time : 1,653.2 ms

Exclusive Time : 13.4 ms

Column Search #3
Matched records
ORDER BY
A b b
Possible Key Reducer B d d
C z N U L L V A L U E
A part which improves LEFT OUTER JOIN Non-matched records
performance

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

JOIN_THRU_AGGR?
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

LIMIT GROUP BY

Order By INNER JOIN

T1 T2 T3

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Try SQL hint JOIN_THRU_AGGR

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)
GROUP BY T2.C ) T4 ON (T1.A=T4.C)
ORDER BY T1.A
LIMIT 20 WITH HINT (IGNORE_PLAN_CACHE, JOIN_THRU_AGGR);

Statement 'SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H FROM T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT T2.C,...'
successfully executed in 1.824 seconds (server processing time: 1.686 seconds)
Fetched 20 row(s) in 0 ms 312 µs (server processing time: 0 ms 0 µs)

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Try SQL hint JOIN_THRU_AGGR

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)
GROUP BY T2.C ) T4 ON (T1.A=T4.C)
ORDER BY T1.A
LIMIT 20 WITH HINT (IGNORE_PLAN_CACHE, JOIN_THRU_AGGR); Column Search #1 Column Search #2

Statement 'SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H FROM T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT T2.C,...'
successfully executed in 1.824 seconds (server processing time: 1.686 seconds)
Fetched 20 row(s) in 0 ms 312 µs (server processing time: 0 ms 0 µs)

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Case 2 – Finding SQL Hint
Try SQL hint JOIN_THRU_AGGR

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) JOIN_THRU_AGGR does not change the plan
GROUP BY T2.C ) T4 ON (T1.A=T4.C)
ORDER BY T1.A
LIMIT 20 WITH HINT (IGNORE_PLAN_CACHE, JOIN_THRU_AGGR); Column Search #1 Column Search #2

Statement 'SELECT T1.A, T1.B, T4.C, T4.E, T4.H FROM T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT T2.C,...'
successfully executed in 1.824 seconds (server processing time: 1.686 seconds)
Fetched 20 row(s) in 0 ms 312 µs (server processing time: 0 ms 0 µs)

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