Hello All, I had a very basic question regarding CTAS Vs select One of our queries takes about 7 min to complete but if i convert that query to write to a table using CTAS, it takes 25 sec. Could someone please tell me how come CTAS is able to select from query and create a table in 25 sec while just the query alone takes 7 min to execute.. Thanks, Sat -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l