If you only need to provide default values for your output, you can do that in SQL directly. I think Oracle has the NVL() function for that.
If that is the only thing your program is doing, then the bottleneck is most likely Oracle, which is not really suited for quickly producing reporting outputs. There are more specialized databases for that, like Sybase IQ.
Update: Thinking more about this, if your database is not idle during the 16 days, the transaction facilities of Oracle will also lessen the database speed. Oracle will try to present a coherent state of the database to each connection, and thus will keep rollback logs for the whole 16 days while your query runs. This creates additional overhead that may be slowing your query down. I would look at setting up a separate instance, or even a dedicated reporting database which has the appropriate indices for your queries instead of using the production database. Consider importing the data from the production database into your reporting database by restoring a backup of the production database. This also serves as a way to find out whether your backups can be restored at all.
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