Alex, If event 10128 is too resource intensive, and if each of the partitions uses its own tablespace, you can bring some tablespaces offline to see if the query fails to read a datafile. Try half of possible partitions at a time to speed up the research. If the partitions are in one tablespace but you can afford moving them to their own tablespaces, you can work that way too. I wish we could change a partition to offline or unusuable. Other than that, you may guess the partitions by checking the file and block numbers in v$bh (or x$bh) when the query is running. But it's possible you miss one or two and may be labor-intensive. Yong Huang > I have a query which joins a partition table with some dimensions, > when I look the execution plan I can see pstart and pstop shows > KEY KEY so pruning is occuring. > > Is there a way to find out exactly what partitions are accessed? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l