Hi! We are experiencing somewhat weird behavior when executing the following statements... Why is Oracle perfomring a full table scan in statement 1 and an index scan in statement 2? The table has a little over 200k rows and all statistics are newly calculated. 1) select * from odin_job where odj_archivieren = 'J'; ... PROD_1313235 ENV_1009473 1 14.10.2005 02:12:39 eff2 PROD_1317238 ENV_1013349 1 14.10.2005 02:15:16 eff2 PROD_1317240 ENV_1007975 1 14.10.2005 02:15:16 eff2 ... 4827 rows selected. Elapsed: 00:00:37.05 Execution Plan ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=1194 Card=49213 Bytes=21309229) 1 0 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'ODIN_JOB' (Cost=1194 Card=49213 Bytes=21309229) 2) SQL> select count(*) from odin_job where odj_archivieren = 'J'; COUNT(*) ---------- 4827 1 row selected. Elapsed: 00:00:00.05 Execution Plan ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=36 Card=1 Bytes=2) 1 0 SORT (AGGREGATE) 2 1 INDEX (FAST FULL SCAN) OF 'IDX_ODJ_ARCHIVIEREN' (NON-UNI QUE) (Cost=36 Card=49213 Bytes=98426) Do you have an ideas? Thanks, Helmut PS: This is 9.2 on HP-UX 11i. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l