Dear list, Is there a difference in executing a query in dedicated vs. shared server connection? The query plans are the same, but in shared server the query runs 1:30 min, and in dedicated mode over an hour. This is repeatable every time, and affects many queries or inserts/merges as well. Am I missing something, or is there any know issue with that? Regards and thanks in advance Martin Klier -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l