Huascar Normal? No. In order to help diagnose your situation, please post more details. Like your query, the sizes of your tables, etc. Have you analyzed the tables in Oracle? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Huascar Espinoza Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:04 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Oracle Performance ¿Is it normal that a SQL sentence: MAX or MIN, execute over 1.5 minutes on Oracle 9i, and in 1 sec. on SQL Server 7.0 (2 millions of registers), using equals data structures and servers? ¿Why occur this situation? Thank you, Huascar Espinoza ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------