The cost can represent two different things depending on the version and regardless of whether you work in the calculation mode based on the processor or not.
In short, cost is the amount of time that the optimizer expects to complete a query, but it is expressed in units of the amount of time it takes to read one block. For example, if Oracle expects one read block to take 1 ms and the request takes 20 ms, then the cost is 20.
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