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 STATEMENT_ID 
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 VARCHAR2(30) 
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 Optional statement identifier specified in the EXPLAIN PLAN statement 
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 TIMESTAMP 
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 DATE 
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 Date and time that the EXPLAIN PLAN statement was issued 
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 REMARKS 
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 VARCHAR2(80) 
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 Place for comments that can be added to the steps of the execution plan 
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 OPERATION 
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 VARCHAR2(30) 
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 Name of the operation performed at this step 
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 OPTIONS 
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 VARCHAR2(255) 
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 Options used for the operation performed at this step; the string returned by the index cost function 
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 OBJECT_NODE 
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 VARCHAR2(128) 
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 Name of the database link used to reference the object 
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 OBJECT_OWNER 
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 VARCHAR2(30) 
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 Owner of the object 
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 OBJECT_NAME 
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 VARCHAR2(30) 
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 Name of the object 
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 OBJECT_INSTANCE 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 Numbered position of the object name in the original SQL statement 
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 OBJECT_TYPE 
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 VARCHAR2(30) 
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 Descriptive modifier that further describes the type of object 
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 OPTIMIZER 
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 VARCHAR2(255) 
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 The current mode of the optimizer 
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 SEARCH_COLUMNS 
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 NUMBER 
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 Number of index columns with start and stop keys (that is, the number of columns with matching predicates) 
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 ID 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 Identification number for this step in the execution plan 
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 PARENT_ID 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 ID of the next step that operates on the results of this step 
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 POSITION 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 Order of processing for steps with the same parent ID. For cost-based optimization, the value in the first row of the plan is the statement's execution cost. For rule-based optimization, the value is null in the first row. 
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 COST 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 The cost of the current operation estimated by the cost-based optimizer (CBO) 
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 CARDINALITY 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 The number of rows returned by the current operation (estimated by the CBO) 
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 BYTES 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 The number of bytes returned by the current operation 
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 OTHER_TAG 
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 VARCHAR2(255) 
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 OTHER_TAG describes the function of the SQL text in the OTHER column. Values for OTHER_TAG are: 
SERIAL - the SQL is the text of a locally-executed, serial query plan. Currently, SQL is not loaded in OTHER for this case. 
SERIAL_FROM_REMOTE - the SQL text shown in the OTHER column will be executed at a remote site. 
PARALLEL_COMBINED_WITH_PARENT - the parent of this operation is a DFO that performs both operations in the parallel execution plan. 
PARALLEL_COMBINED_WITH_CHILD - the child of this operation is a DFO that performs both operations in the parallel execution plan. 
PARALLEL_TO_SERIAL - the SQL text shown in the OTHER column is the top-level of the parallel plan. 
PARALLEL_TO_PARALLEL - the SQL text shown in the OTHER column is executed and output in parallel. 
PARALLEL_FROM_SERIAL - this operation consumes data from a serial operation and outputs it in parallel. 
 
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 PARTITION_START 
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 VARCHAR2(255) 
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 The start partition of a range of accessed partitions 
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 PARTITION_STOP 
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 VARCHAR2(255) 
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 The stop partition of a range of accessed partitions 
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 PARTITION_ID 
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 NUMBER(38) 
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 The step that has computed the pair of values of the PARTITION_START and PARTITION_STOP columns 
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 OTHER 
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 LONG 
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 Information about parallel execution slaves and parallel queries 
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 DISTRIBUTION 
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 VARCHAR2(30) 
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 The distribution method 
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 CPU_COST 
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 NUMBER 
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 User-defined CPU cost 
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 IO_COST 
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 NUMBER 
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 User-defined I/O cost 
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