On 18/07/12 16:11, Kellyn Pot'vin wrote: > Now I have to say, and this goes for most tools, that when I stated I would > like to see TOAD go on a diet, I meant all the extra calls it makes to > provide the user every piece of data at their fingertips, even when all they > want is one, small bit of information. > Let's say a developer is in TOAD and wants to see the name of table 'XYZ'. > When they click on it, TOAD also gathers for them, (just in case) all the > column information, size information, extents, dependencies, partitions, > constraints, etc. This kind of added querying has a cost overall to the > performance of the data dictionary and to a performance tuning DBA, if I > start seeing waits on my TAB$, ICOL$, SEG$, IND$, etc. tables, then I'm going > to want to know why this has started. > .... I've forwarded a copy of Kellyn's email to the Toad Developers for comment. Hope you don't mind. Knowing them, if there is a problem, they will fix it PDQ. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l