> > In my database environment for many of the queires the explain plan > > cardinality defers (huge difference) with the cardinality shown by row > > source operations of tkprof. > > I have been trying to find all possible reasons - Also look at Wolfgang "10053" Breitling's paper "Tuning by Cardinality Feedback" on http://www.centrexcc.com/ This will help you understand this issue using examples. -- John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkanagaraj http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com (Sorry - not an Oracle blog!) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l