Give this a try. Another theoritcal possibility. exp ... query=(where rowid=(select /*+ hint */ rowid from table where ..condition..) ) This should make the horizontal filtering of rows process faster. HTH GovindanK On Fri, 26 May 2006 18:45:35 -0400, JayMiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said: > I'm not clear on what you tried? This looks like my original export > script which is giving me the bad access path (without the index). > > My question was how to add a hint or some other method to force use of > the index as the for some profiles the script is now taking over an hour > instead of 5 minutes. > > Thanks, > Jay Miller > Sr. Oracle DBA > x68355 > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l