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Query Optimization Presented by Mary Radnor

The goal of query optimization is to optimize database performance by finding the most efficient way to execute queries. There are many techniques for optimizing queries, such as using indexes, short field names, and numeric primary keys. Query optimizers in databases like MS Access and Oracle use various methods to determine the most efficient query plan, though the best plan is not always found. Testing multiple query methods and measuring performance is important to optimize queries.

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Query Optimization Presented by Mary Radnor

The goal of query optimization is to optimize database performance by finding the most efficient way to execute queries. There are many techniques for optimizing queries, such as using indexes, short field names, and numeric primary keys. Query optimizers in databases like MS Access and Oracle use various methods to determine the most efficient query plan, though the best plan is not always found. Testing multiple query methods and measuring performance is important to optimize queries.

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Query Optimization

Presented by Mary Radnor


Overview of Query Optimization

•Purpose

•Steps to Optimizing Your Own Queries

•General Techniques

•MS Access

•ORACLE

•Example

•Summary
Purpose of Query Optimization

•To optimize the performance of the database

Because…

•Queries having the same final output will vary in the amount of
time it takes to execute them

•No single optimization technique is best for every query


Steps to Optimizing Your Own Queries

1. Develop multiple ways to run it

2. Test and measure performance

3. Choose the one that is the fastest

Over-Optimization: Where more resources are used to


determine the best plan than is required to execute the
plan
General Query Optimization Techniques
•Use short table and field names instead of long names
•Use numeric primary keys instead of text
•Use primary keys or unique indexes when possible
•And many, many more….

Query Performance is Also Affected by


•Tables and/or queries that underlie it
•Complexity of the query
Methods the MS Access Query Optimizer Uses

•Display the minimum number of fields in a query

•Use non blank unique fields

•Careful use of Between and Equal to, rather than > or <

•Use numeric rather than text primary keys

•Use primary keys or unique indexes whenever possible

•Many more!
The ORACLE Query Optimizer

•Is more complex than the MS Access Query Optimizer

•Uses many different techniques to optimize queries since


no single technique is best for everything

•Ex. Full-Table Scan, B-Tree, Reverse-Key Index, etc


Example Query
Products table contains 77 rows
SQL:
SELECT ProductID, ProductName, UnitPrice
FROM Products
WHERE (UnitPrice > 12.5) AND (UnitPrice < 14)

Performs a full table scan


Optimize Query by Using an Index
SQL:
CREATE INDEX [IDX_UnitPrice] ON Products (UnitPrice)
SELECT ProductID, ProductName, UnitPrice
FROM PRODUCTS
WHERE UnitPrice BETWEEN 12.5 AND 14

This sorts the values of UnitPrice into a B-tree


The database quickly narrows the number of records it
must look at to a minimum
Summary

•The goal is to optimize the performance of the database

•There are many ways to execute a query

•Even the best of query optimizers may not always find the ideal
way to execute any given query

•This presentation is a small overview of the query optimization field


References
Advent-It.co.uk. 6 Nov 2005. Microsoft Access Query Optimization.
<http://www.advent-it.co.uk/queryop.html>

Jacobs, Ken. “Query Optimization.” ORACLE Magazine. Jul/Aug 2002


<http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/02-
jul/o42dba.html>

Ioannidis, Yannis. “Query Optimization.” ACM Computing Surveys 28:1


(March 1996): 121-3.

OdeToCode.com. 9 Nov 2005. SQL Server Indexes.


<http://odetocode.com/Articles/70.aspx>

Riccardi, Greg. Principles of Database Systems with Internet and Java


Applications. Boston: Addison Wesley, 2001.

SQLSummit.com. 6 Nov 2005. Query Optimization.


<http://www.sqlsummit.com/Optimization.htm#real%20world>

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