Cannot resist: Mission Accomplished. As self-appointed judge of geek contests I declare Jonathan has out-geeked Ric this time. BTW, we ALL use clusters pretty much all the time: OWNER CLUSTER_NAME TABLESPACE_NAME ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ SYS SMON_SCN_TO_TIME_AUX SYSAUX SYS C_COBJ# SYSTEM SYS C_FILE#_BLOCK# SYSTEM SYS C_MLOG# SYSTEM SYS C_OBJ# SYSTEM SYS C_OBJ#_INTCOL# SYSTEM SYS C_RG# SYSTEM SYS C_TOID_VERSION# SYSTEM SYS C_TS# SYSTEM SYS C_USER# SYSTEM If you want to go extra geeky, read the sql.bsq file (which I'm quite sure both participants in the geekiest contest have done.) The comments about what the v6 developers (architects?) thought would be sufficient size for the number of columns of the day are hilarious. (And they were very very smart persons, no doubt there. Changing times...) mwf -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lewis Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:09 AM To: Ric Van Dyke; ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Doubt related to ROWID 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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l