I have a customer with a million row 125mb table. A query they are running returns very slowly:
explain plan for SELECT * FROM BIGTABLE WHERE col1 IS NULL;
SELECT * FROM TABLE(dbms_xplan.display);
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| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost |
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| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 96 | 1436 |