Question

Problem with subquery performance (script attached)

Asked by: benouche

Hello !

I have a very huge problem of performance with the following query (containing a subquery).

The table TITLE_RANGES is not very big (~ 50 rows) and my query runs for 10 minutes. Whithout the subquery an analog subquery turns less than 1 second.

Any help will be greatly appreciated and hotly welcome !


INSERT INTO CREDIT(T01_CODE_PAIEMENT_MODE, T02_TOTAL_AMOUNT,  T03_DAY)
SELECT 'CB', sum(CT_PRICE_FF), CT_DAY
FROM CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL
WHERE CT_PAIEMENT_MODE ='07' AND EXISTS
   (SELECT *
   FROM TITLE_RANGES
   WHERE TITLE_RANGES.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
   AND (lpad(substr(CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17),19,'0')
   BETWEEN TITLE_RANGES.BEGIN_RANGE AND TITLE_RANGES.END_RANGE)
GROUP BY CT_DAY;


Waiting for reading from you,
Benouche.

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2002-11-26 at 05:29:46ID20408225
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Answers

 

by: dash420Posted on 2002-11-26 at 05:37:28ID: 7498728

is there any column common between CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL
and TITLE_RANGES. so that instead of using the subquery you can do it in making join.
   
also
(SELECT *
  FROM TITLE_RANGES
  WHERE TITLE_RANGES.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
  AND (lpad(substr(CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17),19,'0')
  BETWEEN TITLE_RANGES.BEGIN_RANGE AND TITLE_RANGES.END_RANGE)

you are  selecting all the column from TITLE_RANGES. instead f that u just pick key item of TITLE_RANGES

(SELECT <key_column>
  FROM TITLE_RANGES
  WHERE TITLE_RANGES.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
  AND (lpad(substr(CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17),19,'0')
  BETWEEN TITLE_RANGES.BEGIN_RANGE AND TITLE_RANGES.END_RANGE)

it will reduce query time some extents.



 

by: benouchePosted on 2002-11-26 at 06:16:42ID: 7498875

Hello Dash420,

there is no common key, and I have to go thru the parsing of PISTE_ISO ONLY to get the info.

I was wrong in the question, my table TITLE_RANGE has 419 rows (and not 40). Still does not change the question..

I was trying to do correlated subqueries but I'm not really use to ...

Benouche

 

by: markagPosted on 2002-11-26 at 08:20:41ID: 7499386

Let's see, you are trying to write records to table CREDIT. The records you are writing are coming from the CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL Table, filtered by CT_PAIEMENT_MODE = '07'. You are then saying only write the records if you return any row from TITLE_RANGES where MNEMONIQUE = 'CB' AND your substring function on CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL.PISTE_ISO2. Can you move the Substr filter to the outer query?

INSERT INTO CREDIT(T01_CODE_PAIEMENT_MODE, T02_TOTAL_AMOUNT,  T03_DAY)
SELECT 'CB', sum(CPI.CT_PRICE_FF), CPI.CT_DAY
FROM CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL CPI, TITLE_RANGES TR
WHERE CPI.CT_PAIEMENT_MODE ='07' AND
TR.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
AND (lpad(substr(CPI.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17),19,'0')
  BETWEEN TR.BEGIN_RANGE AND TR.END_RANGE)
GROUP BY CPI.CT_DAY;

If not, try this. I have aliased the table names and the problem may be it is not correlating your subquery CPI field to the outer driving query.

Total Guess:

INSERT INTO CREDIT(T01_CODE_PAIEMENT_MODE, T02_TOTAL_AMOUNT,  T03_DAY)
SELECT 'CB', sum(CPI.CT_PRICE_FF), CPI.CT_DAY
FROM CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL CPI
WHERE CPI.CT_PAIEMENT_MODE ='07' AND EXISTS
  (SELECT ROWID
  FROM TITLE_RANGES TR
  WHERE TR.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
  AND (lpad(substr(CPI.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17),19,'0')
  BETWEEN TR.BEGIN_RANGE AND TR.END_RANGE)
GROUP BY CPI.CT_DAY;

If this doesn't work, then run AUTOTRACE on theproblem query, but it looks tome like you are doing a full table scan on CPI for every in TR.

 

by: wes_wilsonPosted on 2002-11-26 at 09:02:27ID: 7499559

Please try this query, if that doesn't work, would you please post the table structures and indexes of CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL and TITLE_RANGES.  You should be able to get rid of the distinct and just do a sum in the middle if there can only be one row in TITLE_RANGES where MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'

INSERT INTO CREDIT(T01_CODE_PAIEMENT_MODE, T02_TOTAL_AMOUNT,  T03_DAY)
SELECT TST, SUM(CT_PRICE_FF), CT_DAY
FROM
(
  SELECT DISTINCT 'CB' as "TST" , CT_PRICE_FF, CT_DAY
  FROM CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL, TITLE_RANGES
  WHERE CT_PAIEMENT_MODE ='07'
    AND TITLE_RANGES.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
    AND (lpad(substr(CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17),19,'0') BETWEEN TITLE_RANGES.BEGIN_RANGE AND TITLE_RANGES.END_RANGE)
)
GROUP BY CT_DAY

 

by: wes_wilsonPosted on 2002-11-26 at 09:04:19ID: 7499565

Sorry, left out something, please use this query, above one will not run, the group by is incorrect.

INSERT INTO CREDIT(T01_CODE_PAIEMENT_MODE, T02_TOTAL_AMOUNT,  T03_DAY)
SELECT TST, SUM(CT_PRICE_FF), CT_DAY
FROM
(
 SELECT DISTINCT 'CB' as "TST" , CT_PRICE_FF, CT_DAY
 FROM CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL, TITLE_RANGES
 WHERE CT_PAIEMENT_MODE ='07'
   AND TITLE_RANGES.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
   AND (lpad(substr(CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17),19,'0') BETWEEN TITLE_RANGES.BEGIN_RANGE AND TITLE_RANGES.END_RANGE)
)
GROUP BY TST, CT_DAY

 

by: KananPosted on 2002-11-26 at 21:23:17ID: 7501786

If TITLE_RANGES.BEGIN_RANGE AND TITLE_RANGES.END_RANGE are of number type then you should convert to number.
and try to create index on these columns


SELECT 'CB', sum(CPI.CT_PRICE_FF), CPI.CT_DAY
FROM CT_PAIEMENT_INDIVIDUAL CPI
WHERE CPI.CT_PAIEMENT_MODE ='07' AND EXISTS
 (SELECT 0
 FROM TITLE_RANGES TR
 WHERE TR.MNEMONIQUE = 'CB'
 AND to_number(substr(CPI.CT_PISTE_ISO2,2,17))
 BETWEEN TR.BEGIN_RANGE AND TR.END_RANGE)
GROUP BY CPI.CT_DAY;

good luck,
Kanan

 

by: benouchePosted on 2002-11-27 at 05:25:53ID: 7503241

thanks for your answers !

in fact my query is still a little bit different.
I succeeded applicating the markag suggestion to get out of the subquery, adding the EXISTS clause and filtering the TITLE_RANGES table.

The query is now unning in around 15s.

Thanks again,
Benouche.

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