The question is : how do I known when I need to alter the default values. Bernard Polarski Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: Syed Jaffar Hussain [mailto:sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: maandag 22 januari 2007 12:39 To: Polarski, Bernard Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: how to evaluate optimizer_index_caching Bernard, I dont know whether my reply will be useful or you already might be knowing this. Tempering with OPTIMIZER_INDEX* parameter needs very careful testing and setting other than default value to OPTIMIZER_INDEX* would result favoring NESTED LOOP. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l