Kevin >>>>I'm testing a Sun T2000 Solaris 10 Oracle 10g and have read >>>>that if floating point calculations are used then the box is >>>>essentially a 1 cpu box. > >the database server does not do floating point >calculations My understanding is that at least BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE datatypes do floating point computation. Regards, Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l