When selecting the Table | Contraints tab in the Schema Browser, it takes a long time to retreive the information.
Querying from sys.DBA_CONSTRAINTS is slow
SOLUTION 1:
Follow the steps below to configure some Optimizer hints in the Toad options to speed up the query.
1. Log into your problem database.
2. Open Schema Browser | Tables tab
3. Go to Database | Monitor | and launch SQL Tracker
4. In SQL Tracker, click on Toad.exe and hit the green play button to start the tracking
5. Go back into Toad and click on the Constraints tab
6. Go to SQL Tracker and see what query Toad is running the background that is causing the slowness.
7. Take the query or queries and run it in SQLPlus or Toad's Editor to determine which query is slow.