Hi when reading your post it sounds like you could benefit from using a materialized view instead? /johan On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:42 +0200, Amihay Gonen wrote: > Hi , I've a process which need to do a lot of processing (summaries) > on a large set of data. > > The main flow is as follow: > > copy the new rows since last run (up to defined row count) to a > temporary table. > Run various selects with group by on the temporary table and > merge them into summary table. > > I wander (I will conduct some tests ofcourse ) what type of temporary > table will be better: > > 1) create ... temporary table or ... > 2) create type test is table of > > The first option has more i/o and go throw the buffer cache , but > doesn't consume a lot of memory > the second option doesn't has I/O but consume more memory for the PGA. > > Any ideas ? > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l