Slow update

Hi

I have a table with only 15,000 records and i need to update all the records to increment by 1 every min, therefore a full scan on the table is neccessary. However, the update is very slow!!

I did a timing and it can takes up to 2 mins to update all the records! Is there any ways which I can improve the perofrmance of the updates??
Thank you!

Sounds like bad design! If the value of a proposed column is incremented by 1 every minute, then one solution is for it NOT to be stored but calculated from sysdate and some start time (which IS stored in the row).

Thanks... how do i get the time for the previous 30 mins?

? ? ? ?

If you store sysdate in (say) DateCreated when the row is inserted, then
trunc((sysdate - DateCreated)*24*60)
says how many minutes it has existed.

If that's not what you want, you need to explain your business requirements better.

Mooks, can you check your wait events for which the query execution is waiting on.

select sid, event, total_waits,average_wait, time_waited/100 Time_Waited_in_seconds, max_wait
from v$session_event
where sid = &sid;

Cheers