Stalin, You might be hitting bug 6455659. In my case, dba_outlines was showing the outline as USED but it was not taking effect. Rakesh On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Stalin<stalinsk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > We recently had a performance issue on a SQL for which we had stored > outlined defined for it. Wondering if oracle an skip stored outline by > any means. > > We created outline using create_outline(hash_value, child_number) from > the child cursor in shared pool which had the good plan. And enabled > outline at system level and also to kept persistent across DB restart > via DB startup trigger. > > The SQL in question is using bind variables though. Something along > the lines of "Select * from tablename where col1 = :1 and col2 = :2 > and col3 = :3" > > Thanks, > Stalin > > Platform: 10gR2 (10.2.0.4), Sol10. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l