I don't have access to run the query. It is called from a procedure in a package executed by the application. I can only "see" it. Hemant K Chitale http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com sent from my smartphone On Nov 11, 2010 4:39 PM, "William Robertson" <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ah, agreed that would be a helpful feature. It would also be good if the plan could indicate whether global or partition stats (or default estimates) were used and whether they are stale. I wouldn't be without dynamic sampling though. I find one instant-tuning technique is to try the query at level 9 (either via hint or alter session) and see if it produces a better plan, preferably using 'ADVANCED' in the call to dbms_xplan.display_cursor to get the outline section. Then if it does, figure out what's better about it. It's a bit like using DBMS_SQLTUNE but without the requirement for special privileges. William Robertson -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Dynamic sampling From: Hemant K Chitale <hemantkch... CC: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 11/11/2010 08:20 > > The number of lines (operations) in... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l