Hi I have a very simple query (which i should be able to post after i have acesses to it) where the plan has changed NL using a index to Hash join on a simple two table join after migrating to 10.2.0.3. My question is Has anybody encountered such a situation after migarting from 9i to 10g RAC ? Will oracle support guys help me if i give them the good and the bad plans and the 10053 traces ? (is this covered as part of metalink support contract) I am clueless on how come a simpel two table join with no partitioning a query could go bad. regards Hrishy One solution is to resorting to hints which i dont want to in this case as it is ugly. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l