Often when I hear about performance issues like this I think about Cary's story of the line painter: http://carymillsap.blogspot.com/2010/04/ramp.html On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Antony Raj <ca_raj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > Initially the job ran b/n 10-12 minutes and during the course of over 6 > months the run time has been increased to 80 minutes. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l