Setting TIMED_STATISTICS to true was once believed to cause a lot of = performance degradation. In reality it consumes so little CPU that it's = below the noise level. I ALWAYS set it to true. Way too many lost = opportunities to not set it. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------