One of my customers had this problem just two days ago=20 after upgrade to 9.2.0.6. The query was using a lot of=20 CPU time - performing only LIO. Wes solved this by putting: alter session set "_b_tree_bitmap_plans" =3D false=20 in the after logon trigger to resolve the problem.=20 I had to set this hidden parameter in several cases. =20 From the below run-time plan from this last case=20 you can see that bitmap conversion from rowids=20 was very inefficient. The stats was fresh. Regards, Joze Rows Row Source Operation ---------- --------------------------------------------------- 75 SORT ORDER BY=20 75 UNION-ALL =20 72 NESTED LOOPS =20 72 NESTED LOOPS =20 72 NESTED LOOPS =20 72 NESTED LOOPS =20 429463 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID POLICE (object id 104075) 558622 INDEX RANGE SCAN POLICE_11 (object id 104077) 72 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PK (object id 103596) 226 BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS=20 110 BITMAP AND =20 429463 BITMAP CONVERSION FROM ROWIDS=20 98347027 INDEX RANGE SCAN PK_3 (object id 103815) 406451 BITMAP CONVERSION FROM ROWIDS=20 2262366 INDEX RANGE SCAN PK_1 (object id 103814) 72 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID DOK_PLACILA (object id = 103466) 72 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN DOK_PLACILA_1 (object id 103467) 72 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PLAC_MESTA (object id = 103912) 72 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN PLAC_MESTA_1 (object id 103916) 72 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID FI_OSEBE (object id 103479) 72 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN FI_OSEBE_1 (object id 103494) 3 NESTED LOOPS =20 3 NESTED LOOPS =20 3 NESTED LOOPS =20 3 NESTED LOOPS =20 129159 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID POLICE (object id 104075) 558622 INDEX RANGE SCAN POLICE_11 (object id 104077) 3 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PK (object id 103596) 3 BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS=20 2 BITMAP AND =20 129159 BITMAP CONVERSION FROM ROWIDS=20 29577411 INDEX RANGE SCAN PK_3 (object id 103815) 120469 BITMAP CONVERSION FROM ROWIDS=20 772730 INDEX RANGE SCAN PK_1 (object id 103814) 3 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID DOK_PLACILA (object id = 103466) 3 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN DOK_PLACILA_1 (object id 103467) 3 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PLAC_MESTA (object id = 103912) 3 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN PLAC_MESTA_1 (object id 103916) 3 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID PR_OSEBE (object id 104162) 3 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN PR_OSEBE_1 (object id 104165) - On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:12, Jonathan Lewis wrote: >The default value is FALSE in 8i, and true in 9i, >and some people have reported performance >problems because there setup started doing this >conversion too frequently in inappropriate cases. >Regards >Jonathan Lewis -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l