EXPLAIN PLAN

It displays execution plan chosen by oracle for SELECT, INSERT,

UPDATE and DELETE. Here we can see operation that has taken
place, cost for the operation, no of rows affected, which object is
used, how many bytes used ,
how much time taken and how it has been filtered. It let us know
either which of these nested loops, hash join and sort merge are
used or why it is been used. It shows you the cost taken to
execute query based on this we try to optimize the query.