MACD is the alias. Chris From: mohamed houri [mailto:mohamed.houri@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 10:13 AM To: Taylor Christopher - Nashville Cc: christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 10g INDEX_RS ? Syntax problem maybe? Just for curiosity are you using an alias for your table MACD? SQL> explain plan for insert into t select /*+ index(emp emp_pk) */ * from emp e; Explained. SQL> select * from table(dbms_xplan.display); -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | INSERT STATEMENT | | 15 | 570 | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 | | 1 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| EMP | 15 | 570 | 5 (0)| 00:00:01 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL> explain plan for insert into t select /*+ index(e emp_pk) */ * from emp e; Explained. SQL> select * from table(dbms_xplan.display); -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | INSERT STATEMENT | | 15 | 570 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 | | 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| EMP | 15 | 570 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 | | 2 | INDEX FULL SCAN | EMP_PK | 15 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohamed Houri www.hourim.wordpress.com<http://www.hourim.wordpress.com/> 2012/12/5 <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> INDEX_RS(MACD, MON_ACCOUNT_CHG_DET_IDX01) -- Bien Respectueusement Mohamed Houri -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l