Yechial, Can you give the syntax of the hint "driving site"? Sounds like something I'd like to try! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:adar76@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:08 AM To: Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: Re: DB Links Hello Kevin I just spent a week + with a tar on exactly this problem. We upgraded a database from oracle 8.16 to 9.2.0.5. We had one query where the user joined data from 2 other databases. The run time jumped from 0.1 seconds to 3.5 minutes. I checked and found that Oracle did FTS on one remote database and then joined it to the three records fetched from the other remote database. I finally used hint driving_site to execute the query on the remote database and the time dropped back to 0.1 seconds. Yechiel Adar Mehish -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l