Hi all, I have a excerpt for a execution plan that look like below which i got from dbms.xplan display cursor and would like to know why when the merge join cartesian happens Oracle estimate that the will be only 1 row return should it not be 36080 * 1 = 36080 as this is a Cartesian join the Db version is 10.2.0.3 | 4 | MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN | | 1 | 63 | 252K (1)| 00:42:57 | | | | 5 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS | 36080 | 1761K| 176 (2) | 00:00:02 | | | | 6 | BUFFER SORT | | 1 | 13 | 18E(100)|999:59:59 | | | | 7 | VIEW | VW_NSO_1 | 1 | 13 | 7 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | thanks Joshua -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l