I'm not sure what the sources are that recommend against first_rows but it becomes an it depends questions . Personally we run applications where we have first_rows_100 for our OLTP operations with various mechanism converting the optimizer to various parameters like all_rows based on job type . Technically the choose setting was supposed to perform that but I guess it was never successful. If the app is vendor supported and the vendor recommends it and you have no in house customization that might be impacted due to the change then the vendor knows best Fuad On Jul 6, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Ram K <lambu999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listers, > > We have a new 11g based hybrid application that a third party vendor is > configuring. We observe some slowness in the response times. I do not see any > slow sql in v$sql. The vendor is recommending that we set the OPTIMIZER_MODE > to FIRST_ROWS to get better response times, among other parameter changes. I > have read in few sources that FIRST_ROWS is not generally used, with oracle > itself using ALL_ROWS. Can anyone advise? > > -- > Thanks, > Ram. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l