Lots of emails were sent yesterday, so in case if any kind soul had missed my request 
(which didn't bear any result), I am posting this again. Please help if you can.

Thanks. 
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On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:59:29  
 waseem khan wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Is there a much better way of writing the following SQL statement, bearing in mind 
>the performace hits due to the use of functions in the GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses?
>
>SELECT TO_CHAR(TEST_DATE, 'MON RRRR') XXX, count(*)
>FROM TBL_XYZ
>WHERE TEST_VAL = DECODE(:P_VALUE, 'BEGIN', 'B', 'END', 'E')
>AND TEST_DATE BETWEEN  :P_START_DATE AND :P_END_DATE
>GROUP BY TO_CHAR(TEST_DATE, 'MON RRRR')
>ORDER BY TO_DATE('01 '||XXX);
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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