I was just reading the 10.2 Performance Tuning Guide and found this little gem. I thought it should have been written out by now "7.2.3.1 Increasing Memory Allocated to the Buffer Cache As a general rule, investigate increasing the size of the cache if the cache hit ratio is low and your application has been tuned to avoid performing full table scans." Clearly no one in Oracle has updated the Tech Writers for some time Cheers -- Peter McLarty Database Administrator Student System Upgrade Project Central Queensland University Email: p.mclarty@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 07 4923 2876 Fax: 07 4923 2721 Mobile: 04 0209 4238 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l