Hi All, Thanks for everyone who noticed I can't cut-n-paste.... the view's hint was incorrectly placed in my post (numpty) So I should have posted: create or replace view pinpap.EVENT_T_parallel_historic as select /*+ full(eph) parallel(eph,8) */ * from PINPAP.EVENT_T partition (PARTITION_HISTORIC) eph; The rest of my post's query is still valid though... this view's hints are ignored. When I explain the query that uses this view, I get an index lookup instead of a full scan: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | |* 1 | HASH JOIN OUTER | | | 2 | NESTED LOOPS | | | 3 | NESTED LOOPS | | | 4 | NESTED LOOPS | | | 5 | NESTED LOOPS | | *|* 6 | TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID| EVENT_T | |* 7 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | I_EVENT_SESS_OBJ__ID | *| 8 | TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID| EVENT_PAYMENT_BATCH_T | |* 9 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | I_EVENT_PAYMENT_BATCH__ID | | 10 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | ACCOUNT_T | |* 11 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | I_ACCOUNT__ID | | 12 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | ACCOUNT_NAMEINFO_T | |* 13 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | I_ACCOUNT_NAMEINFO__ID | |* 14 | TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID | EVENT_BILLING_PAYMENT_T | |* 15 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | I_EVENT_BILLING_PAYMENT__ID | | 16 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CONFIG_PAYMENT_CHANNEL_MAP_T | Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 1 - access("EBP"."CHANNEL_ID"="CPCM"."CHANNEL_ID"(+)) 6 - filter("EPH"."POID_ID0"<35184372088832 AND "EPH"."START_T">=1206442800 AND "EPH"."START_T"<=1206529199 AND "EPH"."POID_TYPE"<>'/event/billing/payment/failed') 7 - access("EPH"."SESSION_OBJ_ID0"<35184372088832) 9 - access("EPH"."SESSION_OBJ_ID0"="EPB"."OBJ_ID0") filter("EPB"."OBJ_ID0"<35184372088832) 11 - access("EPH"."ACCOUNT_OBJ_ID0"="A"."POID_ID0") 13 - access("A"."POID_ID0"="ANI"."OBJ_ID0" AND "ANI"."REC_ID"=1) 14 - filter("EBP"."STATUS"<>30) 15 - access("EPH"."POID_ID0"="EBP"."OBJ_ID0") filter("EBP"."OBJ_ID0"<35184372088832) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the dodgy original post. Beers for anyone who chased up this red herring on behalf* [must be in Auckland to collect :-) ] Cheers Tony