Hi All, This may be a silly question, but I am trying to estimate the time it would take to execute a query which joins two tables (range partitioned) and both of them have more than 100 million records. Software/Hardware Specification: 9i R2, 4 CPU, 2 Node RAC, Sun Solaris, BLOCK_SIZE=8K, m db_file_multiblock_read_count=32 Question: What would be the normal count of Block Reads per second ? Thanks in advance, -- Sami Seerangan Oracle DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l