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There are few situations where we know the execution plan of a

particular query can be improved with use of proper hint, But if

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we are not allowed to change the application query in any way(we

cant even add a hint also),then how to achive this?
Example:
For the below query, we want to force it to use parallel 4 Hint
execution plan, But without changing the query.
select count(*) from bigtab where weight in ( select distinct(
weight) from bigtab);

09:33:13 select count(*) from bigtab where weight in ( select

13899072

Elapsed: 00:00:17.29

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select * from table (dbms_xplan.display_cursor(null,null,'TYPICAL'

SQL_IDg5ch3zx56jawc, child number 1
------------------------------------select count(*) from bigtab where weight in ( select distinct
from bigtab)

Plan hash value: 1484132691

-----------------------------------------------------------| Id| Operation | Name | Rows| Bytes |TempSpc

-----------------------------------------------------------| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT|| | |
| 1 |SORT AGGREGATE || 1 |26 |
|*2 | HASH JOIN SEMI||10M| 258M| 248M
| 3 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| BIGTAB |10M| 129M|
| 4 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| BIGTAB |10M| 129M|
-----------------------------------------------------------
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
--------------------------------------------------
2 - access("WEIGHT"="WEIGHT")

Note
---- - dynamic sampling used for this statement (level=2)

26 rows selected.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.03

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Currently the query is taking around 17 seconds.

Lets create a baseline for this query.

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SQL > variable cnt number;

execute :cnt := dbms_spm.load_plans_from_cursor_cache(sql_id

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.05
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SQL> select sql_handle,sql_text,plan_name,enabled

from
dba_sql_plan_baselines
where
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sql_text like '%bigtab%';09:37:35 209:37:35 309:37:

09:38:02 SQL > 09:38:02 209:38:02 309:38:02 409

SQL_HANDLE SQL_TEXT
------------------------------ ---------------------------SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab
tab)

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SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab

tab)

Elapsed: 00:00:00.01

We can see two plans got loaded. Lets disable these existing
plans.

09:41:16 SQL > exec :cnt := dbms_spm.alter_sql_plan_baseline

plan_name = >
attribute_name
attribute_value

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.05
09:42:49 SQL > exec :cnt := dbms_spm.alter_sql_plan_baseline
plan_name = >
attribute_name
attribute_value

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
09:43:02 SQL > select sql_handle,sql_text,plan_name,enabled
from
dba_sql_plan_baselines
where
sql_text like '%bigtab%';09:43:05 209:43:05 309:43:

SQL_HANDLE SQL_TEXT
------------------------------ ---------------------------SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab
tab)

SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab

tab)

Elapsed: 00:00:00.01

Lets run the the same query with parallel hint and get the
execution plan.

09:33:37 SQL > select /*+ parallel (4) */ count(*) from bigtab
13899072

Elapsed: 00:00:07.41
09:33:57 SQL > select * from table (dbms_xplan.display_cursor
SQL_IDgq322uk9152yg, child number 0
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------------------------------------select /*+ parallel (4) */ count(*) from bigtab where weight

select distinct( weight)from bigtab)

Plan hash value: 1244248794

-----------------------------------------------------------| Id| Operation | Name | Rows| Bytes

-----------------------------------------------------------| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT|| |
| 1 |SORT AGGREGATE || 1 |26
| 2 | PX COORDINATOR|| |
| 3 |PX SEND QC (RANDOM)| :TQ10002 | 1 |26
| 4 | SORT AGGREGATE|| 1 |26
|*5 |HASH JOIN SEMI ||10M| 258M
| 6 | PX RECEIVE||10M| 129M
| 7 |PX SEND HASH | :TQ10000 |10M| 129M
| 8 | PX BLOCK ITERATOR ||10M| 129M
|*9 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| BIGTAB |10M| 129M
|10 | PX RECEIVE||10M| 129M
|11 |PX SEND HASH | :TQ10001 |10M| 129M
|12 | PX BLOCK ITERATOR ||10M| 129M
|* 13 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| BIGTAB |10M| 129M
-----------------------------------------------------------
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
--------------------------------------------------
5 - access("WEIGHT"="WEIGHT")
9 - access(:Z>=:Z AND :Z<=:Z) 13 - access(:Z>=:Z AND :

Note
---- - dynamic sampling used for this statement (level=2)
- Degree of Parallelism is 4 because of hint

38 rows selected.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.02

So for the query with parallel hint, you can get these two details
from the above execution plan.
SQL ID: gq322uk9152yg
Plan hash value: 1244248794
Now load these two values to the existing sql handle id
SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad

09:43:02 SQL > select sql_handle,sql_text,plan_name,enabled

from
dba_sql_plan_baselines
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where
sql_text like '%bigtab%';09:43:05 209:43:05 309:43:

SQL_HANDLE SQL_TEXT
------------------------------ ---------------------------SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab
tab)

SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab

tab)

Elapsed: 00:00:00.01

09:47:45 SQL > execute :cnt := dbms_spm.load_plans_from_cursor_cache

plan_hash_value
sql_handle
/

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.06

09:50:43 SQL > select sql_handle,sql_text,plan_name,enabled

from
dba_sql_plan_baselines
where
sql_text like '%bigtab%';09:50:49 209:50:49 309:50:

SQL_HANDLE SQL_TEXT
------------------------------ ---------------------------SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab
tab)

SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab

tab)

SQL_a868c91ef7af57ad select count(*) from bigtab

tab)

Elapsed: 00:00:00.01

We can see a new plan has been enabled for this sql. This is the
parallel hinted plan.
Lets check the explain plan of the orginal query and verify
whether it is using the parallel hinted execution plan or not.

09:50:49 SQL > select count(*) from bigtab where weight in

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COUNT(*)
---------13899072

Elapsed: 00:00:10.98
09:51:25 SQL > explain plan for
09:51:32 2 select count(*) from bigtab where weight in

Explained.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.03
09:51:35 SQL > select plan_table_output from
table(dbms_xplan.display('plan_table',null,'typical -cost -bytes'

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Plan hash value: 1244248794

-----------------------------------------------------------| Id| Operation | Name | Rows| Time

-----------------------------------------------------------| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT|| 1 | 00:00
| 1 |SORT AGGREGATE || 1 |
| 2 | PX COORDINATOR|| |
| 3 |PX SEND QC (RANDOM)| :TQ10002 | 1 |
| 4 | SORT AGGREGATE|| 1 |
|*5 |HASH JOIN SEMI ||3847K| 00:00
| 6 | PX RECEIVE||3847K| 00:00
| 7 |PX SEND HASH | :TQ10000 |3847K| 00:00
| 8 | PX BLOCK ITERATOR ||3847K| 00:00
| 9 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| BIGTAB |3847K| 00:00
|10 | PX RECEIVE||3847K| 00:00
|11 |PX SEND HASH | :TQ10001 |3847K| 00:00
|12 | PX BLOCK ITERATOR ||3847K| 00:00
|13 |TABLE ACCESS FULL| BIGTAB |3847K| 00:00
-----------------------------------------------------------
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
--------------------------------------------------
5 - access("WEIGHT"="WEIGHT")

Note
---- - Degree of Parallelism is 4 because of hint
- SQL plan baseline "SQL_PLAN_ahu693vvuypxd6e73d422" used

30 rows selected.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.03

Now it is using the parallel hint execution plan, even if we havent

used that hint in the query.

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