Sorry for the delayed response - I was out on paternity leave for a couple weeks. It looks like you were right Amit, I added a USE_HASH hint on that view and it's a huge improvement as you can see below. Thanks! Brandon call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Parse 1 0.00 0.02 0 0 0 0 Execute 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 Fetch 30 406.68 488.58 34479 117222 399 2855 ------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- total 32 406.68 488.60 34479 117222 399 2855 Rows Row Source Operation ------- --------------------------------------------------- 2855 SORT ORDER BY 2855 HASH JOIN 29795 NESTED LOOPS 144 TABLE ACCESS FULL CT_ADDR_CODE 29795 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID OE_LINE 29938 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 9532) 22763 VIEW HM_PROJECT_COST_INVOICE 22763 SORT UNIQUE 22763 UNION-ALL 9812 SORT GROUP BY 11621 NESTED LOOPS 11622 NESTED LOOPS 11622 NESTED LOOPS OUTER 11622 TABLE ACCESS FULL PA_HISTORY 11621 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID OE_HDR 23242 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN (object id 9518) 23242 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PA_JOB 23242 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN (object id 9667) 11621 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PA_PROJECT_MASTER 23242 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN (object id 9682) 12951 SORT GROUP BY 12954 HASH JOIN 1 TABLE ACCESS FULL OE_CONTROL 13392 MERGE JOIN OUTER 13393 SORT JOIN 13392 NESTED LOOPS 2052 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID AR_DOC_HDR 2052 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 8895) 13392 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID AR_DOC_LINE 15443 INDEX RANGE SCAN (object id 8898) 13392 SORT JOIN 37684 TABLE ACCESS FULL OE_HDR -----Original Message----- From: amit poddar [mailto:amit.poddar@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:52 PM To: Allen, Brandon Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Why the huge unique sort? So it looks like the view hm_project_cost_invoice is being instantiated 28977 times inside the nested loop marked as bold. It would perform better if the Nested loops marked was an hash join Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l