One of the previous posters already has posted an excerpt from Oracle docs that clearly stated you are wrong. Have you read it? Gints 2006/3/2, Andem, Venu <Venu.Andem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Paul, > > I think its the other way round, if one of the tables in the query does not > contain statistics then Oracle uses RBO. pls correct me if i am wrong. > > Venu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l