Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt have written an excellent book about this: Optimizing Oracle Performance Regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ram K Sent: dinsdag 6 juli 2010 13:18 To: oracle-l Subject: OPTIMIZER MODE Listers, We have a new 11g based hybrid application that a third party vendor is configuring. We observe some slowness in the response times. I do not see any slow sql in v$sql. The vendor is recommending that we set the OPTIMIZER_MODE to FIRST_ROWS to get better response times, among other parameter changes. I have read in few sources that FIRST_ROWS is not generally used, with oracle itself using ALL_ROWS. Can anyone advise? -- Thanks, Ram. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l