Hi DBA gurus, I am do a performance test. Find that running same query using tns connection string with SCAN host name is 5 seconds slow than using tns connection string points to a specific host name (17seconds VS. 12 seconds). Is this normal? Is there are any special requirement to run gather schema stats tasks in a RAC environment? Could anyone shed light on these? Thanks, Lu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l