Has anyone figured out a tried and true solution to tune this query issued by sqlplus SELECT ATTRIBUTE,SCOPE,NUMERIC_VALUE,CHAR_VALUE,DATE_VALUE FROM SYSTEM.PRODUCT_PRIVS WHERE (UPPER(:"SYS_B_0") UPPER(PRODUCT)) AND (UPPER(USER) = USERID) / I tried a FBI on upper(product) and upper(user) but no avail, due to like clause it prefers to do a FTS. db is 9204 TIA rjamya ---------------------------------------------- Got RAC? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l