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Star Transformation And Cardinality Estimates

Submitted by randolf.geist on Mon, 2011-11-14 23:26

If you want to make use of Oracle's cunning Star Transformation feature then you need to be aware of the fact that the star transformation logic - as the name implies - assumes that you are using a proper star schema.

Here is a nice example of what can happen if you attempt to use star transformation but your model obviously doesn't really correspond to what Oracle expects:

drop table d;

purge table d;

drop table t;

purge table t;

create table t
as
select
rownum as id
, mod(rownum, 100) + 1 as fk1
, 1000 + mod(rownum, 10) + 1 as fk2
, 2000 + mod(rownum, 100) + 1 as fk3
, rpad('x', 100) as filler
from
dual
connect by
level <= 1000000
;

exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(null, 't')

create bitmap index t_fk1 on t (fk1);