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Explain DB2 EXPLAIN Explanations

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Explain DB2 EXPLAIN Explanations

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  1. Page based on Title Slide from Slide Layout palette. Design is cacorp 2006. Title text for Title or Divider pages should be either 40 pt for short titles /28 pt for subtitles or 32 pts for longer titles /24 pt for subtitles. DATE text box is not on master and can be deleted. The date should always be 20 pts. Explain DB2 EXPLAIN Explanations

  2. Introduction • Who are you ? • Job function – Application Developer / DBA • DB2 experience • Who am I ? • Steen Rasmussen, CA inc. • Principal Technical Specialist DB2 Tools • 22 years marriage with DB2 since V1R1M0 • Developer, DBA, Presales, Technical Manager, Presenter November 15, 2014

  3. DISCLAIMER • DB2 Performance is a huge topic • You will not become performance specialists today  • This presentation is to be considered an appetizer for more detailed presentations • Understand the fundamentals of Explain • A “quick start” to decrypt Explain output • What to focus on November 15, 2014

  4. Agenda – the BIG one (if you like the agenda and Roberta – I will be back) • What is EXPLAIN and why performance is important • What influences EXPLAIN output (Access Path Selection) • EXPLAIN prerequisites • Explain table(s) • How to create the tables • History and backward compatibility • How can EXPLAIN be executed • Access Path – introduction • What is Explain • OPTIMIZER overview • Explain Output – Explain EXPLAIN November 15, 2014

  5. What can you do to save DB2 CPU (and improve performance) • How to build SQL statements • Static <> Dynamic SQL differences • What if DB2 decides the “wrong” Access Path • OPTHINT • REOPT • RUNSTATS – overview • Help to the Optimizer • Filter Factors November 15, 2014

  6. Hvad kan du gore for at spare CPU (og forbedre performance) • DB2 Locking • Lock types • Recommendations • SQL & Index design • STAGE1 and STAGE2 predicates – does it matter and what is it in reality • How do you find tuning potential – the “bad” SQL’s • Benchmarking • What is it • How can we learn from our experiences November 15, 2014

  7. RI Buffer Pool (BP) RID pool – List Prefetch Parallelism – DEGREE() Access Path (AP) Sargable – STAGE1 STAGE2 Getpage - GETP Optimizer Explain Sequential Prefetch (detection) Deadlock / Timeout Lock Avoidance Lock, Latch and Claim Constraints Filter Factor & Cardinality Correlated query Firstkeycardf og Fullkeycardf Some terms to understand when “digging” into DB2 Performance issues November 15, 2014

  8. Page based on Title Slide from Slide Layout palette. Design is cacorp 2006. Title text for Title or Divider pages should be either 40 pt for short titles /28 pt for subtitles or 32 pts for longer titles /24 pt for subtitles. DATE text box is not on master and can be deleted. The date should always be 20 pts. What is EXPLAIN&Optimizeroverview

  9. What is EXPLAIN • Illustrates how DB2’s Optimizer will execute a SQL statement, a Package or a Plan (depending on how EXPLAIN is executed) • Why is EXPLAIN a necessity • Can’t we simply look at the SQL-statement and estimate if it has been coded “all right” • What if it’s a 12 tabeller joines • Or the statement is 2 MB (or “just” 24 KB) • Does performance mean anything – if a statement executes in half a second or 5 minutes ? • Predict WHAT will happen when SQL changes or at a Package REBIND after a reorganization and Runstats • The latest example – how will upgrading to DB2 V8 impact Access Path (compare DB2 V7 Optimizer with DB2 V8) • Do you always know whether a JOIN or SUBSELECT/EXISTS provides the best performance ?? Let’s see a cool example November 15, 2014

  10. What is EXPLAIN • Why is Performance so important • Bad performing SQL costs $$$$ • One benchmark illustrates: • It costs 30$ to correct “bad” SQL in test • It costs 1000$ to correct in production • If response times are not optimal • Fewer transactions will go through the pipe • Each end user will be less productive • Other SQL-statements will suffer due to sharing of resources • Buffer Pools, I/O channels, Locking conflicts, contention in shared pools like SORT area, RID pool, . . . . • Hardware upgrade to conform to SLA November 15, 2014

  11. What’s influencing the EXPLAIN output • Some factors to consider when comparing Explain between two different enviroments • Optimizer looks at Hardware type • Optimizer looks at number of processors • Optimizer looks at Buffer Pools • Host variables will be replaced by “Parameter Markers” when doing dynamic Explain – this could be a major problem in earlier DB2 versions (pre DB2 V8) if host variables (or column predicate) was defined differently than the column defined in the DB2 catalog November 15, 2014

  12. What’s influencing the EXPLAIN output • Table size (and compression) • Column cardinality and Filter Factor • Indexes present and the columns • FIRSTKEYCARDF and FULLKEYCARDF (details later) • Different RUNSTATS methods to collect statistics • Clustering (Cluster Ratio) as well as clustered indicator • Number of Index Levels (NLEVELS) • SQL predicates (predicate analysis) • ORDER BY and the ability to eliminate sorts • . . . . . . . . . . November 15, 2014

  13. EXPLAIN – OPTIMIZER overview • What is the purpose of the Optimizer • Decides how the “database navigates” • “Parsing” SQL statements to check tables and columns • Investigates statistics from the DB2 catalog (which can be updated by RUNSTATS utility or manual) • Decides what is the “LEAST expensive” access path • DB2’s Optimizer is COST BASED (opposite from Oracle) • Finds statistics from the DB2 Catalog • Calculates Filter Factor(s) (estimated qualified #rows) • Finds a potential number of Access Path’s • Calculates the cost based on CPU and I/O cost November 15, 2014

  14. EXPLAIN – OPTIMIZER overview • Cost based Optimizer – CPU and I/O • CPU costs • Looks at predicates (STAGE-1 or STAGE-2) (this can be covered in another session – next page is an appetizer ) • How many PAGE’s to look at • SORT – any kind • I/O costs • DB2 Catalog statistics (like Clusterratio which also can be covered in a separate session) • Buffer Pool size • What does it cost to allocate temporary files etc. • A lot of activity spent on looking at which indexes exist and how these are matching the predicates November 15, 2014

  15. EXPLAIN – OPTIMIZER overview Result Set Relational Data Manager SQL statement Apply stage 2 predicates and sort data (can be expensive) Optimized SQL Data Manager Apply stage 1 predicates Read Buffer or get data (I/O) Data Buffer Manager November 15, 2014

  16. EXPLAIN Pre-Requisites • EXPLAIN tables • creator.PLAN_TABLE (minimum to do explain) • Records Optimizers choice of Access Path • Not immediately easy to decrypt – many “codes” (see next slide) • creator.DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE (optional) • Shows COST estimates (this is HUGE in my opinion) • creator.DSN_FUNCTION_TABLE (optional) • Only used if UDF (User Defined Function) needs to be explained • Creator.DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE (new in DB2 V8) • Used to explain DB2 Dynamic Statement Cache or parts of this November 15, 2014

  17. EXPLAIN TABLE content (example) QUERYNO QBLOCKNO APPLNAME PROGNAME PLANNO METHOD CREATOR TNAME TABNO 1411 1 RQATD 1 0 SYSIBM SYSTABLES 1 ACCESSTYPE MATCHCOLS ACCESSCREATOR ACCESSNAME INDEXONLY I 0 SYSIBM DSNDTX02 N SORTN_UNIQ SORTN_JOIN SORTN_ORDERBY SORTN_GROUPBY SORTC_UNIQ SORTC_JOIN N N N N N N SORTC_ORDERBY SORTC_GROUPBY TSLOCKMODE TIMESTAMP REMARKS N N IS 2007073116080531 PREFETCH COLUMN_FN_EVAL MIXOPSEQ VERSION COLLID 0 CAD72_2004-08-31-18.24.46 RQPAR110_ALL COLLID ACCESS_DEGREE ACCESS_PGROUP_ID JOIN_DEGREE JOIN_PGROUP_ID RQPAR110_ALL ------ ------ ------ ------ SORTC_PGROUP_ID SORTN_PGROUP_ID PARALLELISM_MODE MERGE_JOIN_COLS ------ ------ - ------ CORRELATION_NAME PAGE_RANGE JOIN_TYPE GROUP_MEMBER IBM_SERVICE_DATA A YÄ.½T æ ³ INITUK15 WHEN_OPTIMIZE QBLOCK_TYPE BIND_TIME OPTHINT HINT_USED SELECT 2007-07-31-16.08.03.615184 PRIMARY_ACCESSTYPE PARENT_QBLOCKNO TABLE_TYPE 0 T November 15, 2014

  18. EXPLAIN Pre-Requisites • How to create the tables for EXPLAIN ? • Every new DB2 version adds additional columns • DB2 V1R0 had no EXPLAIN (afair) • DB2 V1R2 had 25 columns in PLAN_TABLE • . . . . . . . . . • DB2 V7 has 51 columns in PLAN_TABLE • DB2 V8 has 58 columns in PLAN_TABLE • DB2 V9 has 59 columns in PLAN_TABLE • Backward and forward compatible !!! • CREATE TABLE steen.plan_table like . . . . . . . • Usually the Systems Programmer creates one as part of the IVP • Look into IBM SDSNSAMP November 15, 2014

  19. What EXPLAIN DOESN’T show • Explain only shows SELECT, DELETE, UPDATE, INSERT • Important not to forget the issues below when doing performance / tuning • RI Definitions • TRIGGERs executed as part of the SQL-statement • UDF’s • Table- and Column Check Constraints • Not always a guarantee DB2 will USE the illustrated AP • Prefetch activities can be disabled depending on BP status • Parallelism is decided at the execution time • RID pool shortage November 15, 2014

  20. How to execute EXPLAIN • EXPLAIN • Explain Dynamic Statement cache will not be covered in detail. Normally used during DBA Performance/Tuning • Manual type-in via SPUFI • BIND eller REBIND PACKAGE med EXPLAIN(YES) November 15, 2014

  21. How to execute EXPLAIN • Manual “type in” IQPSQLE1 --- (CAPS ON) --- SQL Editor --- (NULLS ON) --- 2007/08/03 13:25:54 COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> CSR Edit the SQL statements that you wish to test below. When you are done editing the SQL, hit PF3/15 or enter 'END' to return to the RC/SQL control panel. Host variables will be parsed out, so that you may test your SQL repeatedly with various host values. ___ explain plan set queryno = 190 for ___ select * from sysibm.systables ___ where name = ? ___ and creator = 'PTI' ___ with UR ; ___ ___ commit; ___ ___ select * from plan_table where queryno=190; ___ ******************************* BOTTOM OF DATA ******************************** November 15, 2014

  22. How to execute EXPLAIN • BIND / REBIND and use EXPLAIN(YES) • Note – you will have to select from PLAN_TABLE to view Access path information. • Consequences can be “less than optimal” – or even “career limiting decisions” To Rebind Or Not To Rebind …. That is the QUESTION ! November 15, 2014

  23. How to execute EXPLAIN • Edit BIND or REBIND COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> PAGE ********************************* TOP OF DATA ********************************* .CALL DSN PARM(S81A) .DATA REBIND PACKAGE(RQPAR110_ALL.RQATD.(CAD72_2004-08-31-18.24.46)) - OWNER(RASST02) - QUALIFIER(RASST02) - CURRENTDATA(NO ) - VALIDATE(RUN ) EXPLAIN(yes) - ISOLATION(CS) RELEASE(COMMIT ) - DEGREE(1 ) - REOPT(NONE ) - KEEPDYNAMIC(NO ) - DBPROTOCOL(PRIVATE) - ENCODING(EBCDIC ) - IMMEDWRITE(NO ) - FLAG(I); .ENDDATA ******************************** BOTTOM OF DATA ******************************* November 15, 2014

  24. BIND / REBIND with EXPLAIN warning • Manual EXPLAIN • This is a “What if” analysis • Illustrates WHICH Access Path will be chosen if a BIND or REBIND is executed • You can check the implications / consequences • BIND / REBIND with EXPLAIN(YES) • DB2 will generate a NEW Access path !!!!! • Is this a good idea ? Maybe ! • What if the DB2 catalog statistics ISN’T optimal • No RUNSTATS executed  statistics columns in the catalog have -1  Optimizer has NO clue about statistics for tables, indexes, columns November 15, 2014

  25. Versioning of Explain • How • One extra step at Program promotion • Can be integrated with your existing Change Management process • Execute EXPLAIN • Save Explain output in a table • Each Explain will generate a new VERSION • Save xx versions • Create a SQL statement which will flag packages where the cost difference is greater than xx % • SUM(PROCMS) and SUM(PROCSU) per Explained Package version and compare to the costs from previous Explain • Also consider saving key values from the DB2 catalog used by the Optimizer November 15, 2014

  26. Versioning of Explain • Why • The primary reason is quickly to identify WHEN and WHY the performance of a program increased/decreased • It is always possible to verify if performance has changes • Primarily due to COST or AP changes • You can see when the change happened (every Explain has a unique timestamp) • You can see what the DB2 Catalog statistics were at the Explain time November 15, 2014

  27. Access Path – what is good / bad AP • No definitive answer exists for this question – except for: IT DEPENDS ! • Let’s look at some issues in order to find the “correct” answer • One example : One SQL-statement costs 0,050 CPU-sec while another one costs 2 CPU-minutes – which one do you want to spend time tuning ? November 15, 2014

  28. Access Path – what is good / bad AP • The “cheap” SQL-statement is executed 100,000 times per hour in an online transaction, while the other is executed once every day in a batch job • One weeks consumption: • Online SQL: (0,050 x 100000 x 24 x 7) =840000 CPU-sec. • Batch SQL : (2 x 60 x 7) = 840 CPU-sec. November 15, 2014

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  30. Explain EXPLAIN • It will take hours to describe every column currently existing in PLAN_TABLE – here are a few to focus on: • Let’s use a real SQL-statement which has been explained to “decrypt” the PLAN_TABLE columns. • Description of all the PLAN_TABLE columns can be viewed in this manual: IBM DB2 SQL REFERENCE GUIDE (SC18-7426-04) :http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dsnsqj14.pdf November 15, 2014

  31. Explain EXPLAIN EXPLAIN PLAN SET QUERYNO=75 for SELECT A.NAME , A.CREATOR , A.TBNAME , A.TBCREATOR , A.CREATEDBY , B.COLNAME , B.COLSEQ , B.ORDERING , A.CLUSTERING , A.UNIQUERULE FROM SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES A , SYSIBM.SYSKEYS B WHERE ( A.CREATOR = B.IXCREATOR AND A.NAME = B.IXNAME ) AND A.CREATOR = :hostvar1 ORDER BY A.NAME , A.CREATOR , B.COLSEQ ; COMMIT; SELECT * FROM PLAN_TABLE WHERE QUERYNO=75; QUERYNO QBLOCKNO PROGNAME PLANNO METHOD CREATOR TNAME ACCESSTYPE MATCHCOLS 75 1 BPASQL8 1 0 SYSIBM SYSINDEXES I 1 75 1 BPASQL8 2 1 SYSIBM SYSKEYS I 2 75 1 BPASQL8 3 3 0 ACCESSCREATOR ACCESSNAME INDEXONLY SORTN_UNIQ SORTN_JOIN SORTN_ORDERBY SORTN_GROUPBY SYSIBM DSNDXX01 N N N N N SYSIBM DSNDKX01 N N N N N N N N N N SORTC_UNIQ SORTC_JOIN SORTC_ORDERBY SORTC_GROUPBY PREFETCH TSLOCKMODE N N N N L IS N N N N IS N N Y N November 15, 2014

  32. Explain EXPLAIN • QUERYNO • The number specified doing manual Explain – or - the statement number from the package/plan which was explained. • For programs – this number is used to identify a SQL-statement in the source code. • In this scenario, the QUERYNO=75 which also was specified in the manual explain. • Did you know you can assign a fixed QUERYNO to the SQL statement in your program so it’s easier to compare statements when the program is changed ???!!! November 15, 2014

  33. Explain EXPLAIN • QBLOCKNO • A number identifying every query block inside the SQL statement. • A typical example is if a UNION or SUBSELECT is present where DB2 will have to execute several statements within one SQL statement. • In this example the SQL-statement is a simply JOIN, which is why we only see QBLOCKNO=1 November 15, 2014

  34. Explain EXPLAIN • PROGNAME • Name of the program which holds the SQL-statement being explained • Package name when REBIND / BIND of a package is executed using EXPLAIN(YES) • Using dynamic explain – this column will hold the name of the program executing the dynamic explain • In this scenario a dynamic explain was executed using program BPASQL8. November 15, 2014

  35. Explain EXPLAIN • PLANNO • Specifies which sequence the individual components are executed inside a QBLOCKNO. • Is this really interesting and do we need to worry about it ? • This will be covered in the section dealing with FILTER FACTOR – this is one of the most important informations to pay attention to • In this scenario we can see SYSINDEXES is accessed first and then SYSKEYS, and finally a third component is performed (sorting) November 15, 2014

  36. Explain EXPLAIN • METHOD • Describes which form of JOIN being used. • 0 : First table accessed in this step (QBLOCKNO) • 1 : NESTED LOOP JOIN • 2 : MERGE SCAN JOIN • 3 : Sorting (of some kind) • (ORDER, GROUP, DISTINCT, UNION) • 4 : HYBRID JOIN • We can see SYSINDEXES is accessed first, and then a NESTED LOOP JOIN with SYSKEYS and finally a SORT is performed to satisfy the ORDER BY November 15, 2014

  37. Explain EXPLAIN • CREATOR – TNAME • Table name and creator for the table accessed • If METHOD=3 , these columns will be spaces • In this scenario two tables are accessed: • SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES • SYSIBM.SYSKEYS November 15, 2014

  38. Explain EXPLAIN • ACCESSTYPE • Describes how the table mentioned is accessed. • This is a very important information which in many “performance exercises” can be a “first shop stop” (why will be explained) • In DB2 9 you can find 17 different methods – the most important ones will be covered here: • I : Index Access • I1: One-Fetch Index scan • M : Superceeded by MX, MI, MU – Multiple Index Access (can be excellent or very bad – at least two indexes from the same table are used) • N : Index Scan where IN is used • R : Tablespace Scan – if many pages exist for this tablespace, this can be extremely expensive • In this scenario both table accessed have ACCESSTYPE=I, so we know indexe(s) are used – and we don’t face a tablespace scan   November 15, 2014

  39. Explain EXPLAIN • MATCHCOLS • Illustrates how many columns being used in the index listed under ACCESSNAME. • Used for ACCESSTYPE : I , I1 , N and MX • The value can be: • o : The entire index is scanned – warning !!!!! • >0 : The number of columns being used from the index listed prior to Tablespace access (unless Index Only). • If the index has 4 columns and MATCHCOLS = 1 , this can lead to non-optimal response times – depending on column cardinality. • Assume the table has 1.000.000 rows • The index has 4 columns • The first column has 2 distinct values (cardinality=0.5) • DB2 will “guess” half the table rows qualify  TS-scan November 15, 2014

  40. Explain EXPLAIN • ACCESSNAME and ACCESSCREATOR • If an index is used to access the table, these columns illustrates which index(es) being used. • Use your common sense and think about the index listed – is it the best one based on the predicates used in the WHERE component of the SQL-statement. • Also think about this information in conjunction with MATCHCOLS – if more columns exist in the index compared to what is described in MATCHCOLS – maybe an additional pedicate can improve performance. • In our scenario an index is used to access both tables specified in our JOIN statement. November 15, 2014

  41. Explain EXPLAIN • INDEXONLY • Describes if DB2 is satisfied by ONLY scanning the index listed under ACCESSNAME – without looking into the data piece (tablespace). • The value can be Y(es) or N(o) • Often it may pay off to have an additional column in the index to avoid the tablespace access (indexonly), and maybe one I/O can be spared at in every statement (the most expensive in the DB2 world). Before making this decision – please have a closer look at “index complications – advantages and disadvantages” • Our JOIN scenario is using two indexes, and both have INDEXONLY=N , meaning what is being selected can NOT be satisfied by the columns in the 2 indexes used. November 15, 2014

  42. Explain EXPLAIN • SORTN_xxxxxx hvor xxxxxx : • UNIQUE : Must the “internal” table ne sorted to remove duplicates • JOIN : Is it necessary to sort due to METHOD = 2 or 4 ? • ORDERBY : Must the “internal” table be sorted due to ORDER BY • GROUPBY : Must the “internal” table be sorted due to GROUP BY November 15, 2014

  43. Explain EXPLAIN • SORTC_xxxxxx hvor xxxxxx : • UNIQUE : Must the “composite” table be sorted to remove duplicates ? • JOIN : Sorting due to METHOD = 2 or 4 ? • ORDERBY : Must the “composite” table be sorted due to ORDER BY • GROUPBY : Must the “composite” table be sorted due to GROUP BY • Our scenario requires the composite result table (from the JOIN) to be sorted due to ORDER BY in the SQL-statement. November 15, 2014

  44. Explain EXPLAIN • PREFETCH • Describes which PREFETCH method MIGHT be used. • L : List Prefetch – DB2 sorts RID’s from index(es) to avoid reading the same data page more than once. • D : Dynamic Prefetch – DB2 will start to read blocks of data into the buffer pool asynchronously (if it pays off) • S : Sequential Prefetch – DB2 will read all “needed” pages into the buffer pool asynchronously to save time doing I/O • This scenario illustrates index DSNDXX01 will be used where CREATOR fullfill the WHERE clause. Since the table also has to be accessed, the RID’s are being sorted so DB2 only needs to read the same page once. If this index was the CLUSTERING index – maybe LIST PREFETCH could have been avoided. November 15, 2014

  45. Explain EXPLAIN • TSLOCKMODE • Describes what kind of LOCK DB2 will use for the tablespace being accessed. Beside the TS-locks, DB2 will do table or row locks (covered in a separate section) • Different LOCK types will be described later, but in general X og IX are not considered “nice” since these can prohibit concurrent access and ultimately lead to TIMEOUTs and DEADLOCKs. • In our scenario we have IS (Intent Share) for both tables being accessed, which is expected since it’s a simple SELECT statement. November 15, 2014

  46. What can YOU do to save DB2 CPU and improve performance- - - - -Until next time Thank You

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