Explain plan for the below select is: select hospital.ADT_FLAG from hospital,unbilled_report where unbilled_report.hospital_id=hospital.hospital_id and unbilled_report.acct#=hospital.acct# and unbilled_report.mr#=hospital.mr#; QUERY_PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT STATEMENT HASH JOIN VIEW index$_join$_001 HASH JOIN HASH JOIN INDEX FAST FULL SCAN SYS_C003868 BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS BITMAP INDEX FULL SCAN ADT_BITMAP_INDX INDEX FAST FULL SCAN HSP_ID TABLE ACCESS FULL UNBILLED_REPORT raja rao <raja4list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi All, The below udate statement is running for long time. update unbilled_report set ADT_FLAG=(select ADT_FLAG from hospital where unbilled_report.hospital_id=hospital.hospital_id and unbilled_report.acct#=hospital.acct# and unbilled_report.mr#=hospital.mr# ); HOSPITAL HAS indexing on acct#, mr# (primary key) and hospital_id (non-uniq index) and adt_flag has a bit map index. the explain plan is like this: QUERY_PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE STATEMENT UPDATE UNBILLED_REPORT TABLE ACCESS FULL UNBILLED_REPORT TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID HOSPITAL INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SYS_C003868 select adt_flag from hospital is taking long time. select hospital.ADT_FLAG from hospital,unbilled_report where unbilled_report.hospital_id=hospital.hospital_id and unbilled_report.acct#=hospital.acct# and unbilled_report.mr#=hospital.mr#; Can someone help me in tuning this. Thanks, Raj --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.