Hi I had a table emp that is range partitioned on empid,dtjoin . It has another column created and another table manager which is also range partitioned on mgrid,dtpromotion I am running query select .... from emp a , manager b where a.empid=b.empid and a.created > sysdate -1 and a.created < sysdate -0 Now the plan is using the Partition on emp table but doing FTS of manager which has approx 100 partitions Tx __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------