(Stories of doing things on prod instead of dev/test don't count, do they?) Or if dev/test don't quite match prod? I pulled this from Toad one day, after a new report was deployed to one of our prod environments: SELECT STATEMENT ALL_ROWS Cost: 1.84467440737096E19 Apparently it ran well in the duh-veloper's test environment... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l