通常情況下, 用UNION替換WHERE子句中的OR將會起到較好的效果. 對索引列使用OR將造成全表掃描. 注意, 以上規則只針對多個索引列有效. 如果有column沒有被索引, 查詢效率可能會因為你沒有選擇OR而降低.
在下面的例子中, LOC_ID 和REGION上都建有索引.
高效:
SELECT LOC_ID , LOC_DESC , REGION
FROM LOCATION
WHERE LOC_ID = 10
UNION
SELECT LOC_ID , LOC_DESC , REGION
FROM LOCATION
WHERE REGION = “MELBOURNE”
低效:
SELECT LOC_ID , LOC_DESC , REGION
FROM LOCATION
WHERE LOC_ID = 10 OR REGION = “MELBOURNE”
如果你堅持要用OR, 那就需要返回記錄最少的索引列寫在最前面.
注意:
WHERE KEY1 = 10 (返回最少記錄)
OR KEY2 = 20 (返回最多記錄)
ORACLE 內部將以上轉換為
WHERE KEY1 = 10 AND
((NOT KEY1 = 10) AND KEY2 = 20)
下面的測試數據僅供參考: (a = 1003 返回一條記錄 , b = 1 返回1003條記錄)
SQL> select * from unionvsor /*1st test*/
2 where a = 1003 or b = 1;
1003 rows selected.
Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE
1 0 CONCATENATION
2 1 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'UNIONVSOR'
3 2 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'UB' (NON-UNIQUE)
4 1 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'UNIONVSOR'
5 4 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'UA' (NON-UNIQUE)
Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
0 recursive calls
0 db block gets
144 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
63749 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
7751 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
68 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
1003 rows processed
SQL> select * from unionvsor /*2nd test*/
2 where b = 1 or a = 1003 ;
1003 rows selected.
Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE
1 0 CONCATENATION
2 1 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'UNIONVSOR'
3 2 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'UA' (NON-UNIQUE)
4 1 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'UNIONVSOR'
5 4 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'UB' (NON-UNIQUE)
Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
0 recursive calls
0 db block gets
143 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
63749 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
7751 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
68 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
1003 rows processed
SQL> select * from unionvsor /*3rd test*/
2 where a = 1003
3 union
4 select * from unionvsor
5 where b = 1;
1003 rows selected.
Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE
1 0 SORT (UNIQUE)
2 1 UNION-ALL
3 2 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'UNIONVSOR'
4 3 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'UA' (NON-UNIQUE)
5 2 TABLE ACCESS (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'UNIONVSOR'
6 5 INDEX (RANGE SCAN) OF 'UB' (NON-UNIQUE)
Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
0 recursive calls
0 db block gets
10 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
63735 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
7751 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
68 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
1 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
1003 rows processed
用UNION的效果可以從consistent gets和 SQL*NET的數據交換量的減少看出