Delete statement was very slow in Oracle

Question

I have a table with about 100k records and I want to delete some rows, The problem is that the DELETE statement is running very slowly - it didn\'t finish in 30 min

Answer 1

Obviously, a delete operation will take longer than a select, but that doesn't account for the difference you see.

It sounds like additional code is being run upon the delete, which indecates there may be triggers on the table that are also running. Can you check this?