Thank you Chris and Amit for your help. I am on 8i so I think I will avoid manipualting 8i. I think I can get the outline from another database. Thanks amit poddar <amit.poddar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: So that means outlines will be a problem if you are hard parsing a lot. ? But hard parsing a lot itself is a problem which needs to fixed first Correct ? thanks amit Christian Antognini wrote: >Amit > > > >>I thought the outlines effected only hard parses not soft parses ? >>Is that correct ? >> >> > >Outlines are "added" to the SQL statements before the generation of the >execution plan. Since soft parses don't re-generate the execution plan... it's >correct to say that they affect hard parses only. > > >Regards, >Chris > >New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ www.trivadis.com >Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) >Français: Genève (17-Nov) >Deutsch: Düsseldorf (23-Nov), Zürich (29-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.