Robyn, that's how I remember it too. I don't deny that some people have had success lowering oica or raising oic - and for individual sql I have used them too ( I remember one case where I deliberately set oica to 1 so that differences in index costs would disappear and the index be determined by the tie-breaking rule which was the index I needed) but I really don't like the idea of setting them system-wide. Robyn wrote: > I attended Wolfgang's presentation on oica and oic at hotsos, and > towards the end of the presentation, he said using system statistics > would provide better results than adjusting oica and oic. This was > > Of course, if I've misremembered the presentation, someone please let me kn= > ow. > -- Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l