Will it make implicit conversion from NUMBER type to VARCHAR? Wouldn't it have adverse effect? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Ji Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:36 PM To: rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: 66,000.00 times slower, please your opinion It has been changed. It now takes a numeric value which when you set to 1000, it means 1000 times faster. This is to give you greater control thus each year you can set it to a higher value than previous year and demand a raise and 2 months of vacation right after. Richard On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:22:44 -0500, Ruth Gramolini <rgramolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would think that the latest version of Oracle still has the hidden > parameter _make_sql_run_faster which you set to "TRUE" which, with all @allegientsystems.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l