John, I use them in a couple of applications and generally, they work fine. A slow network is a slow network. Yes, it can hurt performance. If you think that your network cannot support your application, then find another way to do it. A couple of tricks to consider: If you need to join tables in the remote computer, consider creating a view in that computer and calling that view from your local machine. It will perform much better - basically, limit the joins from remote tables - bad things happen. Good Luck. Tom -----Original Message----- From: John Dunn [mailto:jdunn@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:40 AM To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: database links and performance We are considering using database links in Oracle 9i but are concerned about performance. Presumably the network can be a bottleneck when using database links. Does anyone have any useful experiences with performance of database links? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l