It's certainly possible. =20 Unfortunately, it's been a while since I was in the OCI innards here, but I recall that there was an issue where the OCI 7 approach to prefetching did not work with Oracle 9 databases. This made applications send a separate network request for every row, unless the client application was specifically written to do array fetches (which most ODBC applications are not designed to do). Justin Cave <jcave@xxxxxxxxxxx> Distributed Database Consulting, Inc. http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Smith, Ron L. Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:35 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Oracle 9i performance We have an application running on an NT server using an Oracle 7.2 V2.5 ODBC connection to talk to a new 9.2 database on a Linux server. The application transfers a lot of data back and forth. The performance is pretty slow. Could it be caused by the old ODBC and SQL*NET on the application server? Thanks! Ron -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l