Sandy, Get me a SQLT XTRACT for it (215187.1) and also one from your version of the SQL. Then I will review and offer some feedback. Cheers -- Carlos On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Oracle - EE 11.2.0.2 > OS - SUSE11 > I have a particularly egregious SQL statement that causes problems in my > production OLTP. It's bad enough when only one session is running it, but > at times there may be 5 to 10 sessions running it. Then I end up on a > conference call explaining the problem is the application and unless they > want me to kill customer sessions, I can't address the performance issues. > > I have been trying for 5 years to get the development team to address it. > I have provided a properly coded statement that retrieves the identical > results yet performs about 95 percent faster with significantly less I/0, > along with trace data and explain plans of both the current statement and > the optimized statement. They refuse to even look at the statement because > it is dynamically created in the application using javaScript. Not knowing > javaScript, I'm not sure why it makes a difference. Perhaps other > dynamically created statements would benefit from changes here as well. > > Questions: Do I have any other options to corral this statement? I > haven't used profiles and will be reading up on them this week, but would a > profile even be a appropriate for this situation? > > -- > Sandy > Transzap, Inc. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Cheers -- Carlos Sierra http://carlos-sierra.net/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l