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在Oracle数据库中，索引是提高查询性能的关键工具之一。通过使用索引，数据库可以快速地定位和检索数据，从而加快查询速度并降低系统资源消耗。在索引扫描过程中，有两种主要的方法：索引快速全扫描（Index Fast Full Scan）和索引全扫描（Index Full Scan）。然而，在某些情况下，数据库可能会出现错误的执行计划，选择索引全扫描而不是预期的索引快速全扫描，导致性能下降和资源浪费。该类问题可能不容易发现，仅是SQL性能差，或主要的等待事件为db file sequential read.

Queries that do “full table scan” are the ones that don’t use indexes. However, it is more suitable to use a full table scan for small tables, and it will not cause performance problems. Or when the data on the large table is seriously skewed and a large proportion of data records need to be returned, a full table scan will also be better than an index scan.