> Rick, have you considered using index compression? > On the complex indexes this feature can give the significant improvement > and can even compensate complex index overhead. It would be a good idea to test this first in a production like environment. Index compression is a recipe for causing buffer busy waits on heavily updated indexes. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------