2008/6/26 Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>: > Something I forgot to mention earlier is that SSRS always puts an "N" in > front of each value in the "IN" clause and we have to strip that out before > we run it from sqlplus. > That could be your problem. N'string' uses the national language char set and collation - so a simple index on the column might not be used; are you seeing an implicit cast of your column to NCHAR or NVARCHAR? See SQL Ref Guide: Literals <http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements003.htm#i42617> Regards Nigel