Ric, I know, I was just trying to out-geek you. Regards Jonathan Lewis ________________________________________ From: Ric Van Dyke [ric.van.dyke@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 24 July 2013 16:07 To: Jonathan Lewis; ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Doubt related to ROWID Roger that, what I was more joking at was to not even get the row at all. The fastest way to do anything is to not do it at all. ;-) (My kids seem to have listen to me a bit too much on this point....) =================== Ric Van Dyke Education Director Hotsos Enterprises LTD. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Lewis [mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:04 AM To: Ric Van Dyke; ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Doubt related to ROWID Well, You could avoid the LIO by using the result cache, but there are far fewer latches on the result cache, so not doing the LIO might cause more contention and therefore be more resource-intensive than doing the LIO ;)-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l