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When it is run there are 8 instances of the extract package running which write to a separate file. When the procedures are finished Unix sorts them and merges them together.
In terms of volume I am returning approx 280,000 records per day going back 4 years, with each instance of the procedure given a different date range.
Currently the average procedure takes 4 hours to complete, but the sort and merge takes a further 6 hours.
I would like to let Oracle do the sort, as even tough Oracle and unix sort the records slightly differently, this shouldn't impact the load to the reporting cube too much.
What should I set the sort_area_size to, it currently stands at 1Mb,
shared pool size is 200Mb.
Any advice is welcome!!

What should I set the sort_area_size to, it currently stands at 1Mb <<How would we know, you provide absolutely no information on user load and how much free memory your server has available. And are the sessions in question connected using dedicated sessions or shared server connections?
Based on 280K 100 byte rows per day X 4 years the sort is going to disk. I would make sure my temp tablespace was stripped accross as many disk units as possible. And you should probably verify that you have at least 22G of sort available within the database. ( I figured at 200 days of data per year not 365 so if you have data for 7 days a week the temp estimate has to go up)
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