How can we know that the query are not using index

Can tell me How can we know that the query are not using index, What is its solutions?

[B]Question asked by visitor nitesh[/b]

you can use "explain plan" command to get the execution plan for the query.

This execution plan is basically a step by step instruction for how the statement must be executed. That is, the order in which tables are read, if indexes are used, which join methods are used to join tables and so on.

This is the syntax

explain plan for your-sql-statement;

If you do an EXPLAIN PLAN, Oracle will analyze the statement and fill a special table(PLAN_TABLE) with the Execution plan for that statement.

Hope this helps

set autotrace to on

to use this feature u have to create a table called PLAN TABLE in the usser schema .
to create this table find and run a script named UTLXPLAN.SQL in oracle home directory.
..\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\rdbms\admin

the location may differ from version tio version

next u need to enable PLUSTRACE role.

next everytime u execute any query ,after showing the result it will also show the execution plan that has been followed by oracle optimizer.