Ok.....no SQL statement shown, no questions asked or comments made.... I think the merge join cartesian looks suspicious....not that you asked for any comments... -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Database Administrator, System & Product Technologies ProQuest 789 E. Eisenhower, Parkway, P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 +1.734.997.4059 or +1.800.521.0600 x 4059 mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.proquest.com<http://www.proquest.com> www.csa.com<http://www.csa.com> ProQuest...Start here. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bala Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:45 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Tkprof analysis -- running a procedure is causing it Oracle 9.2.0.5<http://9.2.0.5> Solairs 2.10 Running Oracle Procdure is causing this ## call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 Execute 12015 12.55 12.51 1 2940 0 0 Fetch 13553 45978.60 53103.20 32310734 3968132258 0 1538 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 25569 45991.15 53115.72 32310735 3968135198 0 1538 -- Rows Row Source Operation ------- --------------------------------------------------- 0 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PS_PERSONAL_DATA 0 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN PS_PERSONAL_DATA (object id 291707) 1538 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PS_BI_LINE 3187778022 NESTED LOOPS 2619243520 MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN 11746 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PS_CA_DETAIL_PROJ 11746 INDEX RANGE SCAN PSACA_DETAIL_PROJ (object id 877553) 2619243520 BUFFER SORT 2617981990 INDEX RANGE SCAN PS1BI_HDR (object id 206737) 568522487 INDEX RANGE SCAN PSBBI_LINE (object id 507065) Elapsed times include waiting on following events: Event waited on Times Max. Wait Total Waited ---------------------------------------- Waited ---------- ------------ db file sequential read 32310734 9.63 9381.11 latch free 2781 0.02 0.61 #### Bala Rao