I've a query that I've used to create a view.

e.g. CREATE VIEW name_view as
(SELECT x, y, z, 'STRING'
FROM tablea@remore_db, tableb@remote_db
WHERE ... etc)

When I run the SELECT query in SQL*Plus it runs very quickly.

When I select from the view it runs slowly.

IF I remove the 'STRING' from the query and recreate the View the select from the view runs quite quickly.

NB- the base tables are in a remote database and I create the view in my local database.

I'm running 8i on NT

Confused