Well I figured I document some of the magic numbers that the optimizer uses to help remember them, and help others. The back ground of this is simple.
I was looking through a query that was running for a long, long time, and the cardinality looked wrong. I know the developers were using a table operation (looping over a LOB that was treated like table).
The Cardinality estimate for the step was 8168, and I thought hmmmm I've seen that before when dynamic sampling didn't happen. Well after some digging I came across this page. Cardinality
The page contained this handy chart below... These are important numbers to remember because when you see a cardinality matching this chart it is probably because the optimizer couldn't estimate the correct cardinality, and it couldn't dynamically sample. Below is a snippet from the query I was investigating. Notice the cardinality on the first line.
I was looking through a query that was running for a long, long time, and the cardinality looked wrong. I know the developers were using a table operation (looping over a LOB that was treated like table).
The Cardinality estimate for the step was 8168, and I thought hmmmm I've seen that before when dynamic sampling didn't happen. Well after some digging I came across this page. Cardinality
The page contained this handy chart below... These are important numbers to remember because when you see a cardinality matching this chart it is probably because the optimizer couldn't estimate the correct cardinality, and it couldn't dynamically sample. Below is a snippet from the query I was investigating. Notice the cardinality on the first line.
0 0 0 COLLECTION ITERATOR PICKLER FETCH PARSE_DYNAMIC_COLS(cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=29 size=16336 card=8168)
0 0 0 HASH JOIN RIGHT OUTER (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=8757 size=233200 card=100)
0 0 0 VIEW (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=8614 size=14 card=1)
0 0 0 HASH UNIQUE (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=8614 size=2069 card=1)
0 0 0 FILTER (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us)
0 0 0 NESTED LOOPS (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us)
0 0 0 NESTED LOOPS (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=8613 size=2069 card=1)
0 0 0 HASH JOIN (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=8612 size=2044 card=1)
Default cardinality for database objects
The following table demonstrates the estimated cardinalities (using a 8K blocksize) of various objects which have had no statistics generated for them :| Object Type | Estimated Cardinality |
| Heap Table | 82 |
| Global Temporary Table | 8168 |
| Index-Organized Table | 1 |
| System Generated Materialized View (such as the output of the TABLE operator) | 8168 |