Prompted by a question on the ODC database forum – and also because I failed to get to the “Bonus slides” on my presentation on basic execution plans at both the DOAG and UKOUG conferences, here’s a small of slides demonstrating how to convert a text execution plan into a tree that you can read using the mechanism described in Oracle’s white paper by the phrase: “start from the bottom left and work across and then up”.
The file is a Microsoft Powerpoint file (early version).