Toad and Explain Plans

Oracle explain plans are easily made visible via the Toad Editors Explain Plan output tab and by using the Explain Plan button Image. (See the cursor position in Figure 10.1.)

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FIGURE 10.1 Toad Explain Plans

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Prior to Oracle10, a script was run to create the PLAN_TABLE in your schema. ...

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