Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Bypass buffer cache for Full Table Scans

Paypal DBA Saibabu mentioned an interesting undocumented parameter to bypass buffer cache for full table scans in his blog http://sai-oracle.blogspot.com/

alter session set "_serial_direct_read" = true;

I found it's particular useful in OLTP environment where you need to occasionally run a FTS query against a large table.

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