Hi Joshi Have you reviewed document *730062.1? *That document is the correct way to manipulate outlines. -- Cheers Riyaj Shamsudeen Principal DBA, Ora!nternals - http://www.orainternals.com Specialists in Performance, Recovery and EBS11i Blog: http://orainternals.wordpress.com On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM, A Joshi <ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, > I want to update a stored outline to change the join method. Is there a way > it can be done from sqlplus instead of from OEM or tool. Using just unix > sqlplus access. I looked at DBMS_OUTLN package but nothing in it. I do see > tables like outln.ol$hints and the outline in it but I do not want to do a > sqlplus update on it without knowing the full impact. I cannot change the > query with hint etc since it is a indirect query. So I cannot give hint etc > and exchange plan. Thanks for help. In TOAD : it says there is outline > management but I cannot find it. Thanks > >