I have a huge table in my OLTP DB, that has 100 million+ rows (pls don't ask why), and is partitioned. I know it doesn't make sense for my App to ever do a FTS on it.. But Oracle at times picks up FTS as the best access path (and our STATS is not at it best yet). It just wished for a setting..that "I never want to have a FTS on my table..Unless otherwise explicitly told thru a Hint" . yes, a Hint/setting can't compensate for lack of STATS.. but just that my desparate situation/laziness forced me to think that way. Any thoughts? Thanks, Vasu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l