Could you rewrite the subquery using exists and accomplish the same purpose? Something like this (may not be quite right), the idea is to only hit the first matching record in the subselect, instead of getting all of them: delete from cs_trace cs where cs.targetperiod= 200612 and exists (select RunSeq from C_Run pr, C_Summary ss, C_Stage st where cs.RunSeq = ss.RunSeq and ss.stageType = st.stageType and st.name <http://st.name/> = 'load' and pr.period = 361 and ss.Active = 'yes') Andrew W. Kerber Oracle DBA UMB 816-860-3921 andrew.kerber@xxxxxxx "If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving" -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rajeev Prabhakar Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:55 AM To: doodon@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Delete Performance Issue Hi Don One of the things you could try is parallel DML if your database server is not too cpu bound. Plus, verify that relevant indices are present. HTH -Rajeev On 12/21/06, Don Doo <doodon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, We are facing a serious performance issue. This is a delete statement and it takes 4 hours to delete 2.3 million rows from a 65 million row table. The c_trace table has only one index (the primary key) The table is not partitioned (we don't have the budget to pay for partition option) Other tables have less than 5000 rows. The sub-query returns 3 to 6 rows depending on the values Query delete from c_trace where targetperiod= 200612 and RUNSEQ in (select RunSeq from C_Run pr, C_Summary ss, C_Stage st where pr.RunSeq = ss.RunSeq and ss.stageType = st.stageType and st.name <http://st.name/> = 'load' and pr.period = 361 and ss.Active = 'yes') The V$session_longops shows 1 select OPNAME||' '||MESSAGE||' '||ELAPSED_SECONDS from v$session_longops 2* where sql_hash_value=2467621466 SQL> / OPNAME||''||MESSAGE||''||ELA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Hash Join Hash Join: : 6592 out of 6592 Blocks done 13688 Hash Join Hash Join: : 6272 out of 6272 Blocks done 12753 Hash Join Hash Join: : 6272 out of 6272 Blocks done 13594 Hash Join Hash Join: : 7488 out of 7488 Blocks done 14050 Looks like it takes 14050 seconds to complete the hash join which matches the time taken to complete the delete. select HASH_VALUE,CPU_TIME,elapsed_time/(1000000*60), fetches,disk_reads, BUFFER_GETS,ROWS_PROCESsed from v$sql where hash_value = 2467621466 HASH_VALUE CPU_TIME FETCHES DISK_READS BUFFER_GETS ROWS_PROCESSED ---------- ---------- ------------------------- ---------- ---------- ----------- -------------- 2467621466 193010000 0 1265770 13820713 2325397 Oracle version 9.2.0.4 <http://9.2.0.4/> Hash_area_size 8 MB Sort_area_size 4 MB Statistics are current.. We are using ASSM for these tables. I would really appreciate any ideas to improve this statement. We cannot do a event trace here until mid of January next year because we are behind the SLA and don't want to make it slower. Regards, Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. Thank you. ==============================================================================