not necessarily. can you post the lines immediately above those you've provided? (call, count, cpu, elapsed, etc.)
> It looks like 'bitmap conversion to rowids' is the > hogger. Anybody know what this implies? Should I try > dropping and recreating the index as b-tree? We > don't have an identical test system here so I need a > 'warm and fuzzy' before doing that in our > production. > Dennis > > 0 SORT GROUP BY > 0 NESTED LOOPS > 0 NESTED LOOPS > 0 NESTED LOOPS > 0 HASH JOIN > 0 HASH JOIN > 7 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 44819) > 0 NESTED LOOPS > 156 NESTED LOOPS > 9 HASH JOIN > 2 TABLE ACCESS FULL REG_MGR > 9 TABLE ACCESS FULL SHIPTO_SALESTYP > 164 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID > CUST_SHIPTO > 164 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id > 447931) > 231 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID > INVC_LINE > 1323618 BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS > 346 BITMAP INDEX SINGLE VALUE > 0 TABLE ACCESS FULL SALESREP_DTL > 0 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID MTL > 0 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN (object id 46433) > 0 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID CUST_SOLDTO > 0 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN (object id 89347) > 0 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID > INVC_LINE_ATTRB > 0 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN (object id 43441) > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:41 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > has anythign changed in the table? inserts, updates, > deletes? if so considering doing a move on the table > to rebuild it and possibly rebuilding the indexes in > question. > > have you gather statistics lately? Is it using the > same plan it was using a fwe weeks ago? > > > > > > From: "Meng, Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2003/06/12 Thu PM 03:54:59 EDT > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Query Tuning Question > > > > Hi fellow DBAs, > > This is kind of the follow-up of my last E-mail on > wait event. > > I have a query that is taking hours to complete > and the plan looks ok. While one of the tables is > huge (267mil rows) it is being accessed using one of > its indexes. > > I recorded some stats from v$session_wait while > the query is running to see which segment is query > is hanging up on and the result is the big table > with 267mil rows. > > Funny thing is, according to the user community, > this query took only minutes to run couple of weeks > ago. > > What could be the cause of this wait? When index > is being used, oracle will go directly to the data > block and retrieve the data, which should be very > efficient correct? > > > > > > TIA > > > > Dennis > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Meng, Dennis > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 > http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web > hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Barbara Baker INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).