RE: Poor query performance on smaller tables

2003-09-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Oracle 9.2.0.3.0 HP-UX 11i block size 16K db_file_multiblock_read_count 64 I have five groups of tables that have the same query issued to them. Table structures, indexes are the same, just the data and the number of rows are different. The three tables that have more than 3 million rows

RE: poor query performance

2002-02-28 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Bill, Try this: Delete From T1 Where F1 In ( Select F1 From T1 Minus Select PK From T2 ); This will delete T1 rows for which there's no matching PK in T2 and will most likely be quicker than the Not Exists query, though you never can say for sure! ;-) Oh, and the Cost that Explain