hi: The databases was upgraded from 10204 to 11203 version. After upgrade, we found that the CPU increased more than 30%. Compare the top SQLs CPU time before and after upgrade, I can see big difference (15%~35%): But buffer gets don't have much difference. These SQLs are very simple PK lookup & Nest Loop SQLs. Does anybody know why the CPU per execution is increased so much? Thanks. Eagle Fan (www.dbafan.com) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l