RE: SQL Select Statement Woes

Prior to V5R4, LIKE clause goes down CQE path. If you take it out, perhaps
it goes down SQE path and happens to perform better.

Another possibility is that it uses an index in one case and not another.
It is possible for query optimizer to use an index over a literal with
trailing wildcard, but you're using upper & lower case and that is not
possible for both cases.
If you use UPPER, it'll definitely go down CQE path, and may (highly
unlikely) use an index.

There are other possibilities too... Visual Explain is your friend.

Elvis

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: SQL Select Statement Woes

My apologies in advance for the long post.......I hope my question can be
understood........here goes!.....

Our users use ShowcaseQuery 7.0. Some of the users run queries that take an
excessive amount of time to run (I guess this always the case when user have
the ability to run queries!). At any rate, I have been asked to analyze
some of the queries and see where they went astray. So far, I have had
good luck identifying and correcting the issues, but the SQL statement
listed below has me stumped. This query is realy quite simple, but takes
over two hours to run! As an experiment, I wrote an equivalent RPG program
and it takes a second or two to run! That tells me that something is wrong
with this statement. Throught trial and error, I have found that if I
remove "AND ( FOINSNAME LIKE 'HEALTHSP%' OR FOINSNAME LIKE 'healthsp%'" from
the select statement, then it runs in a second or two as well. With this
statement, it wants to build an access path over SCHDETAIL (a 12 million
record file). I should add that with this statement removed, 25 records are
returned. Of these 2
5, about 20 would have been eliminated with the offending statement
included. I would have thought that this selection would have been done
after all of the other selections......so why is it trying to build an
access path? BTW, I have run in debug and no access paths are suggested.

Thanks,

Joe

****************************************************************************
************
SELECT
DEPTDESC,
PROVNAME,
APPTDATE,
CATMNE,
PRVTYPEMNE,
MRN,
PATLNAME,
PATFNAME,
PATHOMEPH,
PATWORKPH,
SCHEDDATE,
SCHEDINITS,
CASE
WHEN ( FOEXPDATE = '0001-01-01' ) THEN ( ' ' )
ELSE ( CONVERT ( FOEXPDATE, SQL_CHAR ) )
END AS FOEXPDATE,
"CASE" AS CCASE,
FOINSNAME
FROM
WARESCHED.SCHDETAIL SCHDETAIL,
WARESCHED.SCHDEPT SCHDEPT,
WAREHOUSE.PATHEADER PATHEADER,
WAREHOUSE.PATFOLOWUP PATFOLOWUP,
WARESCHED.SCHPROVDRS SCHPROVDRS,
WARESCHED.SCHCATEGRY SCHCATEGRY,
WARESCHED.SCHPROVTYP SCHPROVTYP
WHERE
SCHDETAIL.SCHDEPT = SCHDEPT.DEPTNUM
AND SCHDETAIL.PATMRN = PATHEADER.MRN
AND PATHEADER.FSC1CD = PATFOLOWUP.FOFSC
AND PATHEADER.MRN = PATFOLOWUP.FOMRN
AND SCHDETAIL.PROVIDER = SCHPROVDRS.PROVNUM
AND SCHDETAIL.CATEGORY = SCHCATEGRY.CATNUM
AND SCHDETAIL.SCHDEPT = SCHPROVTYP.PRVTYPEDEP
AND SCHDETAIL.PROVIDER = SCHPROVTYP.PRVTYPEPRV
AND SCHDETAIL.TYPE = SCHPROVTYP.PRVTYPETYP
AND(APPTDATE = date( Case when DAYOFWEEK( CURDATE( ) ) = 6 Then
days( CURDATE( ) ) + 3 Else days( CURDATE( ) ) + 1 End )
AND STATUS NOT IN( 'CANCELLED', 'BUMPED' )
AND SCHDEPT <> 3700
AND PROVIDER NOT IN( 1870, 931, 3058, 1554, 1071, 3689, 1415, 2947,
2537, 2731, 3195, 1537, 2025, 530, 1620, 2426, 3040, 3316, 1708, 2977, 1558,
10238 )
AND DEPTANCIL = 'N'
AND DEPTRESOUR = 'N'
AND ( FSC1INSCD IN( 'SF', 'HPM', 'HPA', 'TOH' )
OR ( FSC1INSCD = 'CMO'
AND ( FOINSNAME LIKE 'HEALTHSP%'
OR FOINSNAME LIKE 'healthsp%'))))
ORDER BY
1,
6,
3