Christopher, what is your oracle version? On 11.2.0.1 "_serial_direct_read" was boolean parameter, besides this, there are other version-dependent conditions: http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2012/09/03/optimizer-statistics-driven-direct-path-read-decision-for-full-table-scans-_direct_read_decision_statistics_driven/ On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You need "_serial_direct_read"=always > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:23 PM, <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I tried setting: > > "_serial_direct_read"=TRUE and that does not do it. > > > > -- > Alex Fatkulin, > http://afatkulin.blogspot.com > > Enkitec, > http://www.enkitec.com > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best regards, Sayan Malakshinov Senior performance tuning engineer PSBank http://orasql.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l