On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Grzegorz Goryszewski <grzegorzof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011-11-13 01:24, Greg Rahn wrote: >> Can you elaborate on the specific use case you are trying to address >> for your workload (what it is and why it's required)? >> > Sure, basically I need to provide Informatica software with presorted data > and because Oracle is limiting RAM used for sorts artificially I'm > looking for some workarounds . Sure, but how much data? Is your test case representative of what is required with Informatica -- e.g. Do you just need a list of keys, or do you need an entire table sorted by key? -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l