The 'best' consulting jobs: follow the guys who think "SQL is SQL. If I wrote it for SQLServer, it'll run on Oracle." Which might be true for individual SQL statements but is a horrible assumption when dealing with multi-statement flows and multi-user concurrent apps. Since 'they' don't understand how it works 'under the covers', the code will often use lots of techniques which kill performance in Oracle. /Hans On 14/03/2013 2:55 AM, Laimutis.Nedzinskas@xxxxxx wrote: > In fantasy world you should not need to know anything about internals, the > product for which you paid a hefty price should work. In the real world it > often helps. At least you feel more secure knowing how things are working. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l