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Help to understand explain plan in Oracle

I am running a query in some big tables, and although it runs fine even tough is a lot of data, I'd like to understand what part of it weighs on the execution. Unfortunately I am not too good with ...
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Measuring the relative performance of queries given the assertion that “cost” isn't reliable

The cost field is a comparative cost that is used internally to determine the best cost for particular plans. The costs of different statements are not really directly comparable. Source Does ...
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Oracle explain for cascading delete is wrong

My deletes in Oracle 11 are very slow. The tables are linked by foreign keys and every foreign key constraint has a delete cascade set on it. If I hit the explain button on a statement like this ...
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Oracle concatenation of queries and function index usage

I have a problem with something I can't understand about indexes in Oracle 11g. We can create test data with: create table test2(field1 varchar2(100),field2 varchar2(100),field3 number,field4 ...