At 02:33 AM 5/24/2005, Barr, Stephen wrote: >I'm trying to resolve how the CBO has come up with the cost of 9131 in the >10053 extract below. > > >If the formula is blevel + FF*leaf_blocks + FF*clustering_factor then the >cost comes out as 11 - how does it then jump to 9131? I'm assuming the cost >calculationfor bitmap indexes is very different? I'm assuming you are right. :-) Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l