Could you post execution plan, statistics?
Concatenated index on (TEST_DATE,TEST_VAL) might help, as well as increasing
the size of sort_area (if you find, that it uses disk for sorting).
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
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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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