Hi To my surprise it is not reading the temporary tablespace, it is doing db file sequential read. However my point is why almos 5 hours is needed to perform a 75789 block hash join! TIA -- LSC On 12/18/06, Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would guess it's writing out to disk. What does v$sort_usage show? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l