Someone should file an enhancement request for "truncate database" command, this would not only be faster, but also more automatic! Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carel-Jan Engel" <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx> To: <gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:27 AM Subject: Re: query tune >I don't understand this truncate solution. We all know that when this > kind of reorganization has to be repeated on a regular basis, the > truncate isn't a real silver bullet. One should find the root cause of > the problem, and solve that. In this case, I would simply drop the > table. That saves a lot of future work, and performance can not degrade > again. Of course the statement will fail then, but as many teachers > tought us: The best way to execute a statement is stop executing it. > Problem solved. > Just my $0.02 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l