Hi All, We are getting several performance issues when accessing the data in oracle it is solaris 9 oracle 9i R2. (64 bit) 2 CPU- 900 MHZ 2 GB RAM (OS RAM) SGA: 600MB Enough disk space (however there is only 1 HDD and split into several mount points) The concerns are: When i try to access the data with a simple select statement : select col1,col2,col... col5 from table X where col2='12345'; where col2 is indexed. it is taking less than a second when i try to access 1 row. However, when i tried to pull the data around a 300-400 rows it is taking 7-8 seconds. Our java applicatiosn are taking 10 seconds to print the data. when i set the time on , timing on at sqlplus it is showing 7-8 seconds to present the data onto screen of sqlplus window. when i set the pages 0 it is taking 2 -3 seconds to present the data. (no row header) Is there any way to reduce teh time to present the data in java. the goal expected is 2-3 seconds (i got this when i set the pages 0 at sqlplus) I am ready to proivde the statistics if any required to anybody who can help me in this. Thanks in advance, Raj --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.