How many nulls do you have as a percentage of the table, and does Oracle make a good estimate for this figure? Do you have any histograms in the column, as I expect you have 2 popular values and very little else? Formatted output from dbms_xlpan.display_cursor with plan execution stats would be extremely useful On Apr 23, 2013 1:17 PM, <rajugaru.vij@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I have a situation where my function based index is not getting used. Its > an NVL based functional index > > NVL(gender,0) =0 > > Is my where clause. And I have a index on NVL(gender,0) > > It was getting used previously, but not now. > > I use the some in update and select queries both the cases, index is not > getting used. > > Using 10g R2 > > Any thoughts? > Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone-- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l