Note that this is more of a bug, not a designflaw ... I would go with Securefiles as well on 11.2+ -- *Tanel Poder* Enkitec (The Exadata Experts) Training <http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/> | Troubleshooting<http://blog.tanelpoder.com/> | Exadata<http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Oracle-Exadata-Apress/dp/1430233923> | Voicee App <http://voic.ee/> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I recommend you read this too if you expect plenty of update activity on > your securefile LOB items: > > *Securefiles DMLs cause high 'buffer busy waits' & 'enq: TX - contention' > wait events leading to whole database performance degradation [ID 1532311.1] > * > * > * > As a workaround (until the change gets built in to 11.2.0.4 and 12c) you > need to set *_securefiles_concurrency_estimate = 50 **before* creating > the tables. > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l