Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 I have a sql that is slow to run: create table tmp_table nologging as (select column1 from table1 where column2 > some_value having count(*) > 1 group by column1); table1 is large, column2 has index on it. The count(*) value in the above query is quite big (typically in thousands) . Since I only need to check if the count(*) is large than 1, is there a way (say to use rownum somehow ) so that when count(*) gets up to 2, it stop counting (using stopkey), therefore I can have the above query run faster? Thanks. Guang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l