Seema Singh wrote: >Hi, > >What changes required in below query to make faster? > > > The following command will speed the query up tremendously: TRUNCATE TABLE URL_PAGES; Executing this command will speed up the query for an order of magnitude. You don't have to thank me. That is all I can help you with without knowing the availability of indexes, distribution of data in the indexed columns, size of the table and server version. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Ext. 121 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l