NHibernate + Fluent NHibernate + Oracle Index

Question

I have a table with more than 10 000 000 rows. In TOAD this query works very well on it:

select /*+ INDEX(x IDX_CASHFLOW_COMPLEX)*/ * 
from MYPR.CASHFLOW x 
where fk_debet in (21856, 21854, 21855)

IDX_CASHFLOW_COMPLEX is index on 5 columns created by following script:

CREATE INDEX MYPR.IDX_CASHFLOW_COMPLEX ON MYPR.CASHFLOW
(FK_DEBIT, FK_CREDIT, FK_DOCUMENT, PAYMENTDATE, FK_PAYMENTCODE)
LOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
PCTFREE    10
INITRANS   2
MAXTRANS   255
STORAGE    (
            INITIAL          64K
            MINEXTENTS       1
            MAXEXTENTS       UNLIMITED
            PCTINCREASE      0
            BUFFER_POOL      DEFAULT
           )
NOPARALLEL;

Similar query but without Oracle hint syntax works significantly slower!

Would you please suggest is it possible to tell NHibernate to add Oracle hint in the query?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Are your optimizer statistics up to date? If not you may find that once they are generated you don't need the hint at all.

Answer 2

Presumably the query without the hint is not using the index.

Try this in any sql tool:

explain plan for
select /*+ INDEX(x IDX_CASHFLOW_COMPLEX)*/ * 
from MYPR.CASHFLOW x 
where fk_debet in (21856, 21854, 21855)
/

select * from table(dbms_xplan.display)
/

... and post the output of the last command. We can use that to see what estimations oracle is making of the expected cardinality of the result set.

Answer 3

With hint /* +INDEX(...) */ :

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 238 | 26 |
| 1 | INLIST ITERATOR | | | | |
| 2 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| CASHFLOW | 1 | 238 | 26 |
|* 3 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | IDX_CASHFLOW_COMPLEX | 1 | | 2 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------
3 - access("X"."FK_DEBIT"=21854 OR "X"."FK_DEBIT"=21855 OR "X"."FK_DEBIT"=21856)
Note: cpu costing is off

Without hint /* +INDEX(...) */ :

-------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost |
--------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 238 | 2 |
|* 1 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CASHFLOW | 1 | 238 | 2 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------
1 - filter("X"."FK_DEBIT"=21854 OR "X"."FK_DEBIT"=21855 OR "X"
."FK_DEBIT"=21856)
Note: cpu costing is off