Hi Madhavi >We have a table which has 2 Nested Tables and a VarArray as columns = besides >other datatypes. This table holds 2 million records. When deleting = records >from this table, we noticed that it does a Full Table scan of the = Nested >tables for each and every row we are deleting resulting in very poor >performance. > >Does anyone have any good suggestions on how we can improve performance = for >this? Anyone encountered this situation before? Do you already tried to create an index on the column NESTED_TABLE_ID? HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l