In order to get partition elimination with subquery pruning you need to specify both columns in the partition key. Since your query does not include TIME_EID, partition elimination with subquery pruning can not take place. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM, amonte <ax.mount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > here are the informations, I am gathering statistics now, refreshing and see > how this goes, using sample percent 1 since the table is huge, thanks > > partition_key > NAME OBJEC COLUMN_NAME COLUMN_POSITION > -------------- ----- ---------------- --------------- > T_MOBILE_EVENT TABLE DATE_EID 1 > T_MOBILE_EVENT TABLE TIME_EID 2 > > subpartiton_key > NAME OBJEC COLUMN_NAME COLUMN_POSITION > -------------- ----- ---------------- --------------- > T_MOBILE_EVENT TABLE TXES_ID 1 -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l