In our datawarehouse we chose to go with materialized views and query = rewrite to speed up our report performance. Ever since I read about = Bitmap Join Indexes I've been wondering whether these are exclusive = features, or can be implemented together, or one or the other is = superior. I'm not sure how to evaluate the benefit of these features. = Would someone comment? Don Freeman Database Administrator Bureau of Information Technology PA Department of Health 717-783-4743 Ext 337 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------