If any of you are attending IOUG's COLLABORATE 08 conference in Denver, I will be talking on 10g features and issues that were really not well covered in books and other related topics around 10g during my presentation. The differences in the optimizer will figure in that list for sure ;-) -- John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkanagaraj http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com (Sorry - not an Oracle blog!) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l