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Until now Tom Kytes unindex has been satisfying my needs on searching unindexed foreign key constraints. There came a day when there became need to improve the query. I came across "enq: TM - contention" wait events - cause there was no fk indexing. After a sneak overview on other indexing and queries on the table I figured that it would be nice to have indexing in other order than the constraint is defined.

--example

create table a(a1 number(8)

, a2 number(8)

, x varchar2(2)

, primary key (a1,a2));

create table b(b number(8) primary key

, a1 number(8)

, a2 number(8)

, foreign key (a1,a2) references a);

create index fk_idx on b(a2,a1);

Toms unindex is giving me false negative four stars.

In my opinion fk_idx is satisfying the unindex need. At least TM Enq Wait events dismished from the environment after creating the index with different order of columns than fk.

Here is an alternative approach to search for unindexed foreign keys implemented in a single sql clause. It is operational at least with Oracle 10.2.0.1 and 11.1.0.7. There exists a bug involved with usage of connect_by_root in versions 10.2.0.3, 10.2.0.4 and 11.1.0.6. For those versions you need to set the _optimizer_connect_by_cost_based parameter to false.

alter session set "_optimizer_connect_by_cost_based" = false;

select case when i.index_name is not null

then 'OK'

else '****'

end ok

, c.table_name

, c.constraint_name

, c.cols,i.index_name

from (

select table_name, constraint_name

, max(sys_connect_by_path(column_name, ' ' )) cols

from (

select a.table_name

, b.constraint_name

, column_name

, position

, row_number() over

(partition by b.constraint_name

order by column_name) rn

from user_constraints a, user_cons_columns b

where a.constraint_name = b.constraint_name

and a.constraint_type = 'R'

)

start with rn = 1

connect by prior rn = rn-1

and prior constraint_name = constraint_name

group by table_name, constraint_name

) c

left outer join

(

select table_name

, index_name

, cr

, max(sys_connect_by_path(column_name, ' ' )) cols

from (

select table_name

, index_name

, column_position

, column_name

, cr

, row_number() over (partition by index_name, cr

order by column_name) rn

from (

select table_name

, index_name

, column_position

, column_name

, connect_by_root(column_name) cr

from user_ind_columns

connect by prior column_position-1 = column_position

and prior index_name = index_name

)

)

start with rn = 1

connect by prior rn = rn-1

and prior index_name = index_name

and prior cr = cr

group by table_name, index_name, cr

) i on c.cols = i.cols and c.table_name = i.table_name

;