In looking at a performance problem in a recently inherited db (11.0.7 on Solaris9) and came across some statements with this comment as the leading text. The application team says they have no idea about the code. I'm wondering if it is coming from the SQL Tuning Advisor... ------------------------------------------- Daniel Fink OptimalDBA http://www.optimaldba.com Oracle Blog http://optimaldba.blogspot.com Lost Data? http://www.ora600.be/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l