Thanks to everyone who replied. The version below from Finn (adding hash hint) ran in 16 minutes! Finn Jorgensen <finn.oracledba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: The biggest problem for this query is that the IN results in a FILTER operation, which is very slow, and I'm guessing the inner "MINUS" query returns a lot of rows. I'm guessing there's no index on "guid" in call_detail? Try this version (it's hard tuning queries without access to the database so a little testing can be done) : SELECT /*+ parallel(a,10) use_hash(a b) */ billing_act_nbr, final_tg_nbr, COUNT(*), SUM (call_duration_value), SUM (rated_cost_amt) FROM cdrw.call_detail a, ( SELECT guid FROM cdrw.call_detail c WHERE orig_dt >= TO_DATE ('20071016000000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND orig_dt < TO_DATE ('20071016010000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND (record_typ='STOP' OR call_duration_value>0) MINUS SELECT guid FROM cdrw.call_detail_cost_vero d WHERE orig_dt >= TO_DATE ('20071016000000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND orig_dt < TO_DATE ('20071016010000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss')) b WHERE orig_dt >= TO_DATE ('20071016000000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND orig_dt < TO_DATE ('20071016010000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND (record_typ='STOP' OR call_duration_value>0) AND a.guid = b.guid GROUP BY billing_act_nbr, final_tg_nbr; Finn On 10/31/07, A Ebadi <ebadi01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: We've been trying to tune this query below, but to no avail. The table call_detail below is a very large hourly partitioned table with each partition being about 2-4GB! The other table (call_detail_cost_vero) is relatively small. The two inner selects with minus runs fine alone in about 6-8 minutes, but the entire query doesn't finish even after running it for many hours! We've tried running it in parallel/no parallel and hasn't helped. Any recommendations would be appreciated. The explain plan is at the bottom of this e-mail also. Thanks, Abdul Environment: Sun Solaris, Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 on RAC (4 node) SELECT /*+ parallel(a,10) */ billing_act_nbr, final_tg_nbr, COUNT(*), SUM (call_duration_value), SUM (rated_cost_amt) FROM cdrw.call_detail a WHERE orig_dt >= TO_DATE ('20071016000000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND orig_dt < TO_DATE ('20071016010000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND (record_typ='STOP' OR call_duration_value>0) AND guid IN ( SELECT guid FROM cdrw.call_detail c WHERE orig_dt >= TO_DATE ('20071016000000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND orig_dt < TO_DATE ('20071016010000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND (record_typ='STOP' OR call_duration_value>0) MINUS SELECT guid FROM cdrw.call_detail_cost_vero d WHERE orig_dt >= TO_DATE ('20071016000000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss') AND orig_dt < TO_DATE ('20071016010000', 'yyyymmddhh24miss')) GROUP BY billing_act_nbr, final_tg_nbr; EXPLAIN PLAN QUERY_PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SELECT STATEMENT Cost = 32 2.1 HASH GROUP BY 3.1 FILTER 4.1 PX COORDINATOR 5.1 PX SEND QC (RANDOM) ":TQ10000" 6.1 PX BLOCK ITERATOR 7.1 TABLE ACCESS FULL "CALL_DETAIL" TABLE 4.2 MINUS 5.1 SORT UNIQUE NOSORT 6.1 PARTITION RANGE SINGLE 7.1 TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID "CALL_DETAIL" TABLE QUERY_PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8.1 INDEX RANGE SCAN "CALL_DETAIL_UK" INDEX (UNIQUE) 5.2 SORT UNIQUE NOSORT 6.1 PARTITION RANGE SINGLE 7.1 INDEX RANGE SCAN "CALL_DETAIL_COST_VERO_PK" INDEX (UNIQUE) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com