HI , i have a 2-node oracle 10g rac on win 2003 server , when i connects to the database it takes around 15 -20 seconds to connect , is there any way to make it faster , for eg : set ORACLE_SID=RAC1 D:\>SQLPLUS / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Jul 1 10:40:05 2009 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL>*it takes me 20 seconds to get this sql prompt ...* ** **