Thomas, I have a similar situation(query) and needs performance improvement. My understanding is that IOT is good for lookup tables. Can I use IOT for transaction tables(gets updated every few mins). Did anyone try clustering the tables involved in joins to improve the performance? On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:42:30 -0500, Mercadante, Thomas F <thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I agree. I reduced a very slow OLTP summary query from 3 minutes to 5 > seconds using an IOT. This query was used every time a user hit their home > page. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l