Question

First time working with DB2. I have a stored proc that performs a union, well it trys to anyhow. The procedure times out. The select statements on either side of the union execute quickly with no issue when done individually. Why would a union do this?

Here is some sudo code for the proc, assume data types are either int or string, and they match when compared or unioned unless otherwise noted in the SQL:

DECLARE Foo CURSOR WITH RETURN FOR
  Select STRIP(A.Name) as my_Name, 
     Case A.Number
        when 2 then '(' || strip(char(A.Number)) || ')' strip(B.num)
        when 3 then '(' || strip(char(A.Number)) || ')' strip(C.num)
        when 4 then '(' || strip(char(A.Number)) || ')' strip(D.num)
        when 5 then '(' || strip(char(A.Number)) || ')' strip(E.num)
        when 6 then '(' || strip(char(A.Number)) || ')' strip(F.num)
        end as my_number
  FROM A
       left outer join B on A.Number= 2 and A.Name = B.Name
       left outer join C on A.Number= 3 and C.Name = B.Name
       left outer join D on A.Number= 4 and D.Name = B.Name
       left outer join E on A.Number= 5 and E.Name = B.Name
       left outer join F on A.Number= 6 and F.Name = B.Name 
      ,session.Temp_Result X
  WHERE X.ID = A.ID
  GROUP BY A.Number, A.Name, B.Name, C.Name, D.Name, E.Name, F.Name
for fetch only ur;

DROP TABLE Session.Temp_Result;

DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE session.Temp_Result
(     ID DECIMAL(18,0)
);

INSERT INTO session.Temp_Result
        select X.ID
        from Z, Y, X, Q
        where Z.num = 6
          and Z.ID = Y.ID2
          and Y.GROUPA = 'ABC'
          and Y.GROUPB = 'DEF'
          and Y.ID = X.ID2
          and X.ID = Q.ID            
        union
       select W.ID
        from Z, Y, W
        where Z.num = 6
          and Z.ID = Y.ID2
          and Y.GROUPA = 'ABC'
          and Y.GROUPB = 'DEF'
          and Y.ID = W.ID2
        group by ID;


  OPEN C_HIERARCHIES;

Answer 1

Try to query using “with” statement.

DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE session.Temp_Result (
ID DECIMAL(18,0))
WITH REPLACE;

INSERT INTO session.Temp_Result
(ID)
WITH Q1(Y_ID)
AS (
SELECT Y.ID
FROM Z
    INNER JOIN Y ON Z.ID = Y.ID2
WHERE Z.NUM = 6 AND Y.GROUPA = 'ABC' AND Y.GROUPB = 'DEF')

SELECT X.ID
FROM X
    INNER JOIN Q1 ON X.ID2 = Q1.Y_ID
WHERE EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM Q WHERE Q.ID = X.ID)
UNION
SELECT DISTINCT W.ID
FROM W
    INNER JOIN Q1 ON W.ID2 = Q1.Y_ID

If it does not help, try to use “Explain SQL” for the select statement. Maybe you should create some indexes…