Paula How are you ensuring RULE is used today? Not analyzing tables? That is an issue because CBO needs you to analyze, which will cause everything to be CBO. If the SQL has a hint, then analyze won't be a problem, but you won't get CBO anyway. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paula Winkler Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:35 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Stored Outlines and Optimizer Mode Thank you Niall and Lex for your responses. We have a 3rd-party Oracle8i system running under the RULE-based optimizer. We have identified a handful of poor performing SQLs. We can't change the generated SQLs therefore we are looking into using stored outlines to store the access plans for those exceptional SQLs. Our thought is CBO would kick in for the SQLs with the stored outlines and RBO would kick in for the other acceptable SQLs. Does this sound like it will work? - Paula W. Do you Yahoo!? <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailtag_us/*http://mail.yahoo.com> Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------