Sounds like you should be able to read the whole table in the original 30 minutes. How about a query plan=3F Allan -----Original Message----- =46rom: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leroy Kemnitz Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:51 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Slow performance/response All - I have not done tuning a great deal so bear with me. I currently have a table that consists of 10 million rows - warehouse. The largest table I have. A few months ago a query took around 30 minutes to run against=20 this table. This was acceptable. Now the query takes almost 5 hours!!! The db is 9.2.0.4 running on aix 5.2. I have stats that I ran on the db during the query run and it shows the db working but not maxed out.=20 The tablespace is at 75% used, not seeing waits. There is alot of disk=20 reads. No disk sorts. I am seeing a high 'Physical Blks per Read %'=20 but I am attrbiuting that to the datafiles being on one disk. I do plan on rearranging them after the query finishes and hope this helps. I am looking for other ideas of what could be wrong with the table or=20 places to look. I will continue to search for ideas at metalink and in=20 the books. Lee ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ =46AQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________________ This email is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Copying, forwarding or distributing this message by persons or entities other than the addressee is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. This email may have been monitored for policy compliance. [021216] ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------