Did you see this behavior when you applied the patch in dev and test, or = is it just showing up in production? Justin Cave Distributed Database Consulting, Inc. http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wales, Stephen = (RTSI) Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:10 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: The Oracle 9.2.0.4 Optimizer - are there problems with it? We recently (2 weeks ago) threw the 9.2.0.4 patch onto our production = =3D 9.2.0.2 databases. Since that time, users have been complaining about long running queries = =3D are running even longer. Now I'm sure that part of that is poor = query =3D structure (I've analyzed and tuned 2 of them this week = already) but the =3D users want to know why their queries are going so = slow... I've seen some notes on Metalink referencing a parameter =3D = optimizer_features_enable and talk of setting it to 8.1.7 - is this =3D = worth doing? Anyone got any input on this? Or had similar problems? = =3D Or know of a solution? Would appreciate any advice. Thanks Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put = 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------