Well, I see different costs in 10g, when I have no system statistics and switch optimizer models. For example: do a full table scan with select count(object_id) from big_table (table from Tom Kyte's Effective Oracle by Design) - with IO model costs=5630, with CPU model costs = 13065 Peter amit poddar <amit.poddar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: I thought Oracle would use the IO model in absence of system statistics (default behaviour in 9i) ? thanks amit Peter Alteheld wrote: >Hi, > >I wanted to learn about the cpu model behaviour when no system statistics are >available. That is different from the io model. > >Peter >amit poddar wrote: >How about settting > >_optimizer_cost_model to *io > >SQL> alter session set "_optimizer_cost_model"=abc; >ERROR: >ORA-00096: invalid value ABC for parameter _optimizer_cost_model, must >be from >among choose, io, cpu > > > >--------------------------------- >Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB kostenlosem Speicher > >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > --------------------------------- Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB kostenlosem Speicher -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l