Hello Roger, What does your explain plan show for the following query ; SELECT s.rowid "sales_rid", t.rowid "times_rid", c.rowid "customers_rid",c.cust_id, c.cust_last_name, s.amount_sold, s.quantity_sold, s.time_id FROM sales@remotedb s, times@remotedb t, customers@remotedb c WHERE s.cust_id = c.cust_id AND s.time_id = t.time_id; If your remote tables are comparatively much bigger than the local tables, you could choose the driving_site hint and let the remote site be the driving site of your query. As always, you need to check the explain plan difference. -Rajeev On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Xu, Roger <Roger.Xu@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to go with fast refresh but I am not sure the performance > issue I may face. Any suggestion? (10.2.0.4) > > > Thanks, > > Roger Xu > >