If you're really desperate, you could try hash_join_enabled=false, but that will of course have an impact on several other queries, maybe good, maybe bad - so you'd probably want to start your query testing over from the beginning, or at least identify any queries that are using hash joins and then see how they perform w/o the hash joins. Regards, Brandon ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rjamya Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:56 PM To: Wolfgang Breitling Cc: Oracle Discussion List Subject: Re: NL & Hash Outer Join question Thanks Wolfgang ... I'd like this H-O-J to go away and use the good old NL, so we can at-least certify and upgrade. Further enhancements can be done after the upgrade. rjamya On 1/25/07, Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Changes to the optimizer in releases 9.2.0.5, 9.2.0.6 , 9.2.0.7 and 9.2.0.8 Just one release step can be enough. You've got 4 ! The CBO is hardly the same animal anymore. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.