Index Upgrades

Listening to a presentation by Paul Matuszyk on extended statistics yesterday, I learned something that I should have spotted ages ago. Here’s a little demo script to introduce the point:

create table t1
as
with generator as (
	select	--+ materialize
		rownum id
	from dual
	connect by
		level <= 1000)
select
	rownum			id,
	mod(rownum,100)		n1,
	mod(rownum,100)		n2,
	mod(rownum,100)		n3,
	lpad(rownum,10,'0')	small_vc,
	rpad('x',100)		padding
from
	generator	v1,
	generator	v2
where
	rownum <= 1000000;

create index t1_i1 on t1(n1, n2, n3);

-- collect stats, no histograms.

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