There is an interesting utility to test fastly two differect solutions 1.1 Tom Kyte’s Runstats: To compare two solutions This tool allows you easily to compare two distinct solutions. Don’t forget to run once every one before executing the comparison, because in the first time always usually there is first parsing and disk reads. You can get it from his site http://asktom.oracle.com/~tkyte/runstats.html And here the example of its use http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:9496983726463 exec runstats_pkg.rs_start; --Execute test1 exec runstats_pkg.rs_middle; --Execute test2 exec runstats_pkg.rs_stop(500) /* only show those things that differ by at least 500 */; There you can see the comparison between two proposed solutions to tune. Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco OCP Database 9.2 Standard Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------