Jay, in that particular case if you have that huge columns leading to row chaining then the unique "vertical" partitioning option of IOTs using overflow segments might actually give you a significant advantage, of course depending on how these huge columns are getting used. Regards, Randolf Oracle related stuff blog: http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/ SQLTools++ for Oracle (Open source Oracle GUI for Windows): http://www.sqltools-plusplus.org:7676/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlt-pp/ > Changing secure_inbox_message an iot while intriguing might actually > yield lower performance than just creating the index on the 2 columns > whose data is being retrieved. This is because there is some row > chaining (not just migration) in that table due to some huge columns so > using an iot has the potential of increasing the lios. ______________________________________________________ GRATIS für alle WEB.DE-Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l