On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, that explains a lot, thank you very much! > It is exciting how 11g takes this concept ("cardinality feedback", thanks > Wolfgang!) even further. SQL Profiles are available in 10g, so it is not a new 11g feature. I believe Wolfgang was inspired by the slides I put together for this presentation: Oracle OpenWorld 2005: A Practical Approach to Optimizer Statistics in Oracle Database 10g http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/performance/pdf/PS_S961_273961_106-1_FIN_v2.pdf which was based on some field work I had done at a few customer sites. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l