Sorry if this is old news. And, hope this works for you. It did for me. The first 5 chapters in .pdf from Millsap/Holt Optimizing Oracle Performance book, sponsored by Veritas: http://tinyurl.com/3ktoe If it does not work, the original link came from here: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&group=comp.databases.oracle.server (look at the far right, near bottom) Regards, Mike Thomas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l