Janine, You can try to upload your statspack report here : http://www.ondatafine.com/ English is a bit strange at times, but it's a good resource, especially if you upload snapshots taken at regular intervals. Stephane Faroult RoughSea Ltd <http://www.roughsea.com> RoughSea Channel on Youtube <http://www.youtube.com/user/roughsealtd> Janine Sisk wrote: > Thanks to all who have replied so far (and if you have something to add, > please do!). > > My thought was that since the nasty query is the same on both sides, and the > Amazon "server" is far more powerful, that the first place I should look > would be the way I have 11g configured. It has been *years* since I last did > a fresh install of Oracle but I do recall that there were various things one > could change and that statspack was one of the tools to see where the > bottlenecks are. Is that not the case anymore now that Oracle claims to be > self-tuning or whatever the latest marketing hooha is? :) > > Is this a reasonable approach, or am I just wasting time? I can tune > individual queries if I have to, but I have to be *very* careful about not > stepping on toes... > > I had forgotten about 10046 traces - I will definitely try that as well. > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l