I think ASH and AWR are only available in 10G. I did do a spreport for a load before and after the changes. The only thing that I was able to see that was significantly different was the number of cursors per session It went from between 2 and 4 before the changes to 10 to 14 after the changes. I can't tie that however to the degradation in performance thank you Gene Gurevich "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxx m> To Sent by: genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx oracle-l-bounce@f cc reelists.org oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject Re: SQL*Loader performance 01/17/2008 11:42 AM Please respond to jkstill@xxxxxxxxx On Jan 17, 2008 8:46 AM, <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Jared, ... think that couple of columns were removed. There were nothing else. Try loading just one of the tables and do a 10046 trace on it. Or if in a database with no users, run before and after statspack snapshots. Or use ASH/AWR if you have it. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l