If using an SQLPlus client to "time" the performance, even such a simple thing as SET ARRAYSIZE can make a big difference when you get to 100s and 1000s of records being retrieved by the client. If you SPOOL , that also adds to the total time on the client. Also SET TERMOUNT OFF/ON makes a difference.
Hemant
How much time it take to: Select * from result_table;
This will give you an indication how much time it take to move the data to the client.
Adar Yechiel Rechovot, Israel
Allen, Brandon wrote:
Maybe it's taking 7 minutes to return the data to your client over the network if it's a lot of data and/or you have a slow network connection. How long does it take if you just spool the output to a file on the server (set term off)? Regards, Brandon Allen
Hemant K Chitale http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital
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