Query Plan Changes

SAP Sybase IQ 16.0 SP2 introduces new query plan nodes.

New Query Plan Nodes

Node Change Description
Projection Cache Dbspace Stats New node indicating:
  • HitRate – Percentage of hit count in the total cache dbspace read count.
  • Finds – Total cache dbspace read count.
  • Hits – Hit count.
  • Pageouts – Count of pages written to the cache dbspace by the buffer manager.
  • IOms – Time, in milliseconds, the buffer manager took to read to and write from the cache dbspace.
Condition <n> Cache Dbspace Stats New node indicating:
  • HitRate – Percentage of hit count in the total cache dbspace read count.
  • Finds – Total cache dbspace read count.
  • Hits – Hit count.
  • Pageouts – Count of pages written to the cache dbspace by the buffer manager.
  • IOms – Time, in milliseconds, the buffer manager took to read to and write from the cache dbspace.

New Query Details

The Query Details area of the plan contains these changes:
  • Two new rows for TEXT index-based prefiltering: Adjunct Index, Adjunct constraint. These rows existed in previous releases for WD index-based pre-filtering only.
  • New row showing the number of rows remaining after pre-filtering.
  • New row specifying the type of subquery: Distribute Sort Based Uncorrelated IN subquery.

CPU Utilization Bar Graph Changes

  • Increased resolution – A new tooltip over the user (green) / system (red) CPU usage bar shows CPU utilization percentage.
    In a multiplex, the leader node query plan shows CPU utilization against the total number of available cores in the cluster.  
        

Thread Utilization Bar Graph Changes

  • Increased resolution – If the maximum number of threads is >100, then thread utilization shows as a percentage. 
    A new tooltip over the thread utilization bar shows the utilization percentage.
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