There are some differences in the way dbms_stats works between the two versions (default settings are different) that you may want to look into. There are quite a few doco's regarding performance issues after upgrade, just search metalink for them Jack 2008/12/18 hrishy <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 > > > -- J.A. van Zanen