You may want to check where most of the data is. There is a hint to use the remote table as driving table for the query. I think it is "driving_table". I used it once and it made a huge difference. Yechiel Adar Mehish Computer Services ----- Original Message ----- From: "Knight, Jon" <jknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:12 PM Subject: View vs. Synonym (across DBLink) > While tuning a mammoth query, I noticed that one of the tables in the from > clause is actually a view. It's defined as "select * from > table_name@dblink". Is there any reason to believe I could improve > performance by dropping the view and using a synonym instead? > > Thanks, > Jon Knight > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l