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Here’s a performance problem that came up on OTN recently. The following query (reformatted) takes “ages” to run – how do you address the problem:

SELECT
	COUNT(*) 
FROM
	smp_dbuser2.workflow_step_report
WHERE
	report_ID IN (
		SELECT	report_id
		FROM	smp_dbuser2.workflow_report
		WHERE	trunc(start_time) = '28-Apr-2017'
		AND	user_id = 'nbi_ssc'
	)
;

Various pieces of relevant information were supplied (the workflow_report table holds 1.4M rows the workflow_step_report table holds 740M rows and some indexes were described), but most significantly we were given the execution plan:

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