Thanks a lot Anjo, > ASSM will not do that many recursive SQL (data > dictionary operations). I understand that, but here I am not seeing them with the trace 10046. So I said it is internal to Oracle algorithm how it is done. > difference is made there.You could probably get > better results with non-ASSM > by using freelists and using large extents. Your > difference is purely in the > recursive SQL part. For me it is the same speed, whatever extent size. I am not expecting that to be the problem either because I did truncate reuse storage too before the test. Did Oracle change something from 10g? I should go and do the test on 9i because now I am curious. I am maybe stupid and do not get it. Regards, Zoran --- Anjo Kolk <anjo.kolk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ASSM will not do that many recursive SQL (data > dictionary operations). The > difference is made there.You could probably get > better results with non-ASSM > by using freelists and using large extents. Your > difference is purely in the > recursive SQL part. > > Anjo. > . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l