An here is the explain plan for CTAS. 14:24:09 TPCOM@ITNQA> SELECT * 14:26:07 2 FROM TABLE(DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY); PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Plan hash value: 1836469873 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop | TQ |IN-OUT| PQ Distrib | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | CREATE TABLE STATEMENT | | 16M| 1971M| 1129K (1)| 03:45:51 | | | | | | | 1 | PX COORDINATOR | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | PX SEND QC (RANDOM) | :TQ10001 | 16M| 1971M| 1064K (1)| 03:32:52 | | | Q1,01 | P->S | QC (RAND) | | 3 | LOAD AS SELECT | POS_REPORT_DETAIL_TT | | | | | | | Q1,01 | PCWP | | | 4 | PX RECEIVE | | 16M| 1971M| 1064K (1)| 03:32:52 | | | Q1,01 | PCWP | | | 5 | PX SEND ROUND-ROBIN | :TQ10000 | 16M| 1971M| 1064K (1)| 03:32:52 | | | | S->P | RND-ROBIN | | 6 | TABLE ACCESS BY GLOBAL INDEX ROWID| POS_REPORT_DETAIL | 16M| 1971M| 1064K (1)| 03:32:52 | ROWID | ROWID | | | | |* 7 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | POS_REPORT_DETAIL_IX4 | 16M| | 96080 (1)| 00:19:13 | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 7 - access("OPMEMBERCOMPANYID"=21193) 19 rows selected. 14:26:08 TPCOM@ITNQA> Thanks Bheem Aitha Sr. Oracle, MySQL and Teradata DBA iTradenetwork From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bheemsen Aitha Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:25 PM To: Dominic Brooks Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Create table performance in 11gR2 Here is the DBMS_XPLAN for the underlying select statement. SQL> select * from table ( dbms_xplan.display_cursor ('090nz57xsk6zt',0, 'ADVANCED')); PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SQL_ID 090nz57xsk6zt, child number 0 ------------------------------------- select DETAILID , OPMEMBERCOMPANYCATALOGID , BRANCHID , DISTMEMBERCOMPANYID , POS_UNIT_ID , VEN_POS_MV_ID , CUSTINVOICEDATE , CUSTINVOICENUMBER , POS_PRODUCT_ID , RBT_PROCESSED_DATE , MFG_POS_MV_ID , OPMEMBERCOMPANYID , DISTMEMBERCOMPANYCATALOGID , STATUSNAME , DISTCATCHWEIGHTITEMFLAG , SOLDCASES , SOLDWEIGHT , SOLDDOLLARS , LAST_UPDATED_DATE , LASTPROCESSEDDATE , CLOSED , CUSTOMERID , VDA_CLOSED from pos_report_detail where opmembercompanyid = :"SYS_B_0" Plan hash value: 638285578 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | 1064K(100)| | | | | 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY GLOBAL INDEX ROWID| POS_REPORT_DETAIL | 16M| 1971M| 1064K (1)| 03:32:52 | ROWID | ROWID | |* 2 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | POS_REPORT_DETAIL_IX4 | 16M| | 96080 (1)| 00:19:13 | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Query Block Name / Object Alias (identified by operation id): ------------------------------------------------------------- 1 - SEL$1 / POS_REPORT_DETAIL@SEL$1 2 - SEL$1 / POS_REPORT_DETAIL@SEL$1 Outline Data ------------- /*+ BEGIN_OUTLINE_DATA IGNORE_OPTIM_EMBEDDED_HINTS OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE('11.2.0.4') DB_VERSION('11.2.0.4') OPT_PARAM('query_rewrite_enabled' 'false') OPT_PARAM('_optim_peek_user_binds' 'false') OPT_PARAM('star_transformation_enabled' 'true') ALL_ROWS OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$1") INDEX_RS_ASC(@"SEL$1" "POS_REPORT_DETAIL"@"SEL$1" ("POS_REPORT_DETAIL"."OPMEMBERCOMPANYID")) END_OUTLINE_DATA */ Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 2 - access("OPMEMBERCOMPANYID"=:SYS_B_0) Column Projection Information (identified by operation id): ----------------------------------------------------------- 1 - "DETAILID"[NUMBER,22], "DISTMEMBERCOMPANYID"[NUMBER,22], "OPMEMBERCOMPANYID"[NUMBER,22], "BRANCHID"[NUMBER,22], "DISTMEMBERCOMPANYCATALOGID"[NUMBER,22], "CUSTOMERID"[VARCHAR2,20], "CUSTINVOICENUMBER"[VARCHAR2,20], "CUSTINVOICEDATE"[DATE,7], "DISTCATCHWEIGHTITEMFLAG"[NUMBER,22], "SOLDCASES"[NUMBER,22], "SOLDWEIGHT"[NUMBER,22], "SOLDDOLLARS"[NUMBER,22], "POS_UNIT_ID"[NUMBER,22], "POS_PRODUCT_ID"[NUMBER,22], "VEN_POS_MV_ID"[NUMBER,22], "MFG_POS_MV_ID"[NUMBER,22], "STATUSNAME"[VARCHAR2,15], "OPMEMBERCOMPANYCATALOGID"[NUMBER,22], "CLOSED"[NUMBER,22], "LASTPROCESSEDDATE"[DATE,7], "LAST_UPDATED_DATE"[DATE,7], "RBT_PROCESSED_DATE"[DATE,7], "VDA_CLOSED"[NUMBER,22] 2 - "POS_REPORT_DETAIL".ROWID[ROWID,10], "OPMEMBERCOMPANYID"[NUMBER,22] 65 rows selected. SQL> Thanks Bheem Aitha Sr. Oracle, MySQL and Teradata DBA iTradenetwork From: Dominic Brooks [mailto:dombrooks@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 1:57 PM To: Bheemsen Aitha Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Create table performance in 11gR2 You've given an explain statement of a select not of the CTAS. They may or may not be the same - quite possibly not given your CTAS is asking for parallel 4. You really need to confirm the actual execution plan in your 11.2.0.4 via DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY_CURSOR and ideally supplement this with information from real-time SQL monitoring via SELECT DBMS_SQLTUNE.REPORT_MONITOR(sql_id) FROM DUAL or from sample waits from ASH (both of which have extra licensing requirements). Or even better do an extended SQL trace. Hope this helps Dominic