It seems this did not make it to Oracle-L the first time, perhaps due to too much quoted material? Anyhow... -----Original Message----- From: Bobak, Mark Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:51 PM To: Bobak, Mark; Mark W. Farnham; johan.eriksson@xxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: index contention in RAC D'oh! Thanks to Tim Gorman for pointing out that my example demonstrates that caching IS, in fact, DISABLED, as shown below! If it were not, one instance would be doing 10,11,12,13....while the second was doing 20,21,21,22,23.... Boy, I just totally missed the point on that one. So, caching is in fact disabled in RAC w/ ORDER specified. Sorry for the total failure of comprehension on my part....I must have left my brain in neutral this morning.... -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. --Richard P. Feynman, 1918-1988 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l