Query is immediate in sqlplus but doesn't finish in Apex

Question

OK, so i wrote this fairly simple 4 table query for a report. This query when run from SQL Developer or directly in SQL Plus runs and completes in less than a second.
I create an APEX application that would run this same query and the report never completes. The APEX page never actually displays.
I know that's not a lot of information...i can provide it if necessary. Here is the explain plan of the query from autotrace:
15:50:46 >;
  1  select c.customer||' '||c.name, so.opportunity_name,  ui.name, so.estimated_project_value, so.resolution_date, smn.note
  2  from s.sales_opportunity so, s.sales_mgmt_notes smn, s.user_initials ui, s.customer c
  3  where smn.sales_mgmt_note_key = so.resolution_sales_mgmt_note_key
  4  and so.resolution_date > sysdate - 365
  5  and ui.key = so.owner_user_initials_key
  6  and so.resolution = 'L'
  7* and so.customer_key = c.key
15:50:48 >set autotrace traceonly explain statistics
15:50:59 >/
369 rows selected.
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 3997948256
| Id  | Operation               | Name                  | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time        |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT          |                  |     91 | 32032 |   815   (2)| 00:00:10 |
|   1 |  NESTED LOOPS               |                  |        |        |          |        |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS               |                  |     91 | 32032 |   815   (2)| 00:00:10 |
|   3 |    NESTED LOOPS           |                  |     90 |  9360 |   541   (2)| 00:00:07 |
|   4 |     NESTED LOOPS          |                  |     90 |  6390 |   450   (2)| 00:00:06 |
|*  5 |      TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| SALES_OPPORTUNITY        |     90 |  4770 |   359   (2)| 00:00:05 |
|*  6 |       INDEX RANGE SCAN          | IOPPORTUNITY_RESOLVEDATE |   393 |        |      3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   7 |      TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| USER_INITIALS         |      1 |     18 |      1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  8 |       INDEX UNIQUE SCAN      | UI_PK              |      1 |        |      0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   9 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | CUSTOMER             |      1 |     33 |      1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 10 |      INDEX UNIQUE SCAN          | CUST_PK             |      1 |        |      0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 11 |    INDEX RANGE SCAN          | ISMN_NOTE_KEY         |      1 |        |      2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|  12 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID     | SALES_MGMT_NOTES        |      1 |   248 |      3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   5 - filter("SO"."RESOLUTION_SALES_MGMT_NOTE_KEY" IS NOT NULL AND "SO"."RESOLUTION"='L' AND
           "SO"."OWNER_USER_INITIALS_KEY" IS NOT NULL)
   6 - access("SO"."RESOLUTION_DATE">SYSDATE@!-365)
   8 - access("UI"."KEY"="SO"."OWNER_USER_INITIALS_KEY")
  10 - access("SO"."CUSTOMER_KEY"="C"."KEY")
  11 - access("SMN"."SALES_MGMT_NOTE_KEY"="SO"."RESOLUTION_SALES_MGMT_NOTE_KEY")
Statistics
       1  recursive calls
       0  db block gets
       2810  consistent gets
       0  physical reads
       0  redo size
      73724  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
     784  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
      26  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
       0  sorts (memory)
       0  sorts (disk)
     369  rows processedEdited by: ChrisLHT on Mar 30, 2012 12:46 PM
Edited by: ChrisLHT on Mar 30, 2012 12:56 PM

Answer 1

So you have no item references in the Apex query predicate - right? I had a similar issue that I never really traced the cause of, but adding ALL_ROWS hint resolved my particular query. See if using SELECT /*+ ALL_ROWS */ and SELECT /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ from SQLplus can reproduce the issue.