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How NLS settings can affect Oracle’s join behavior – v$ example

Recently, I had a problem with accessing Active Session History being not fast enough on Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1. Looking at the explain plan, wow, no doubt why: Accessing two fixed tables with TABLE ACCESS FULL and joining them with NESTED LOOP. This couldn’t have been “works as designed”, it would render gv$active_session_history nearly […]

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