Hi The size varies from a few MB to a couple hundreds of MB. With 1 external table the query is pretty fast, we have other process which run against only a single external tables larger than the problematic one and the timing is much better. The problem with this I am showing is that it is formed by many external tables and to simply the query we created several union all views on top of these external tables. I will test without views and see what happens. TIA On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Greg Rahn <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Two questions: > - How big are the file sizes in MB? > - Can you reproduce this behavior with only 1 external table? > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:51 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The parallel degree is 8, 10.2.0.4.2 RAC, the plan is huge so I am > attaching > > a file (look for word Parallel Slave), I only included 3 PQ plans but > there > > are around 16 but from PQ 2 the plans is all the same for the rest so the > > relevant are 3 I am attaching > > -- > Regards, > Greg Rahn > http://structureddata.org >