Note in-line Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Public Appearances - schedule updated Dec 23rd 2004 Cary Millsap wrote: >If I recall correctly, 10g has some operational memory built into the = >CBO >that allows the CBO to use operationally measured response times for a = >given >query as an input into computing the next plan. > I think you may be remembering the explanation I gave in one of my Oracle 11! demonstrations to explain how the HAL optimizer could change its mind in mid-stream. When 9i came up with v$segstat and v$sql_plan_statistics, it became obvious that Oracle Corp. could start writing an extension to the optimizer that could use results from previous queries, and object-level cache hit rates as the basis for changing its estimated cost of a query. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l