Sergey, > This has been running for about 4 hours now. I got an SQL > trace file, and > looked at the execution plans. So here's the deal. There's an > interesting > join condition "...where A.col1=B.col1.....". However, A has > a few hundred > distinct values in that column, none of them being NULL, and > B, which has a > few hundred thousand rows, has ALL NULLs in the corresponding > column, and > that column is not indexed, too. That's the query where it > sits for a couple > of hours. Guess what the optimizer is doing (8i)? I think > internal effects > are secondary in this scenario. It is the production (including the
Could you determine from the SQL trace if there were updates against these indexes? That would explain the recursive SQL... John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Kanagaraj INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).