Sql: Optimizing BETWEEN clause

Question

I wrote a statement that takes almost an hour to run so I am asking help so I can get to do this faster. So here we go:

I am making an inner join of two tables :

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Answer 1

try a parallel query

  alter session enable parallel query;

  select /*+ parallel */ ... same as before;

You could also create a materialized view, perhaps with the parallel hint above. It may take a long time to create the MV but once created it can be queried repeatedly.