What version of Oracle? -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Database Administrator, System & Product Technologies ProQuest 789 E. Eisenhower, Parkway, P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 +1.734.997.4059 or +1.800.521.0600 x 4059 mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.proquest.com <http://www.proquest.com> www.csa.com <http://www.csa.com> ProQuest...Start here. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DBA Deepak Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 1:04 PM To: oracle-l Subject: MULTI-LOCK IO Hi All, I have few doubts on Multiblock IO. I have a DB which runs on mixed load i.e., OLTP & DSS. We have few big tables which require FTS for reporting and other relatively smaller tables need indexed access. Our DB block size is 8K. My queries are: 1> If I set db_file_multiblock_read_count=128 (MAX_IO_SIZE=1M) then the optimizer may choose FTS for the other queries as well. Can I set optimizer_index_cost_adj=10 to influence/override the FTS decission? 2> Is it a good idea to set db_file_multiblock_read_count=128 at the session level wherever FTS is required? 3> Will the system statistics override the db_file_multiblock_read_count settings? Please help me on this. -- Regards, Deepak Oracle DBA