Unnesting disjunctive subqueries (with OR predicate)

Jonathan Lewis has recently posted a good example of CBO not good enough in transforming specific query types. A recent thread on the SQL.ru Oracle forum reminded me of this issue.

Scalar subquery unnesting

Here is a nice example of what Oracle 11.2.0.2 is able to do with a subquery inside an expression. It can unnest it – that is a new 11.2.0.2 feature of the transformation part of the CBO.