Larry I doubt that the role makes the difference you are seeing. Dumb idea - depending on how you ran your test, maybe the first query brought the blocks into the buffer cache. Rule of thumb: When explain plan doesn't answer your question, trace the execution. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Larry Hahn Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:32 PM To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Overhead using a role Is there much overhead involved in using roles? I have a query that runs about 4 minutes using the schema owner account. The same query runs about 50% longer using a userid that is attached to a role that has read any table rights. I did an Explain Plan on both, but they are exactly the same. We are running under RBO. The database is 8.1.7.3 running on Sun Solaris. Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this. Larry __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------