Hi list, after reading the effect of histogramas, I decided do not gather histograms, without testing before, so I droped and recalculated statistics ( in more than one production database) without getting them with the skew only optoin I did this EXEC DBMS_STATS.DELETE_DATABASE_STATS(); EXEC DBMS_STATS.GATHER_database_STATS( ); Then all the useres started to complaint somep rocess were slower, some of them were 100% slower, then I gather againt histogram statistics and all return to normality. EXEC DBMS_STATS.GATHER_database_STATS( ESTIMATE_PERCENT=>100,METHOD_OPT=> FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE SKEWONLY'); So based on my experience in 9.2, if you don't use histograms, try to run this command and see if you get some performance (test it ) Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco OCP ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------