SQL optimization: deletes taking a long time

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Published on 2010-03-16T15:58:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 16:01 UTC
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I have an Oracle SQL query as part of a stored proc:

DELETE FROM item i WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM item_queue q WHERE q.n=i.n) AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM tool_queue t WHERE t.n=i.n);

A bit about the tables:

  • item contains about 10k rows with an index on the n column
  • item_queue contains about 1mil rows also with index on n column
  • tool_queue contains about 5mil rows indexed as well

I am wondering if the query/subqueries can be optimized somehow to make them run faster, I thought that deletes were generally fairly fast

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