Because Oracle's basic assumption is not realistic? Would you post both results(plan statistics) of nested loops version and hash version? ================================ Dion Cho - Oracle Performance Storyteller http://dioncho.wordpress.com (english) http://ukja.tistory.com (korean) ================================ On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:34 PM, hrishy <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Bhavik > > Thanks for quick response,and correcting my understanding on the starts > column. > > Having understood the starts column and the cardinality calculation my > question then would be why oracle is not using Hash Join and prefers a > Nested Loop join > It takes almost 8 minutes to complete the query with nested loops.If i use > a use_hash hint it completes in 2 minutes > > regards > Hrishy > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >