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Don,
It is 5 months ago but IIRC the ODBC Driver which comes as part of the Oracle 8i product is much much faster than the one provided by Microsoft.
I think thats correct and I trust its useful to you.
Regards Gary Anniss
Don Thomson <dthomson_at_zack.fammed.wisc.edu> wrote in message
news:m3em738w1q.fsf_at_zack.fammed.wisc.edu...
> We have our clinical warehouse currently running on 7.3.3.4. A few of
> our key users use MS Access to run queries, etc. There haven't been any
> problems until we looked into upgrading to 8.1.5.
>
> Now when we try to "link" from Access to an Oracle(8.1.5) table, the CPU
 on
> oracle goes sky high. Where a table use to link in under a minute on
 7.3.3.4,
> it is now taking 10 minutes.
>
> In running the statistical measurements [utlestat] on each of the
> two instances when the table is linked I find the following measures:
>
>             7.3.3.4              8.1.5
> cpu                   2095               46063
> bytes from sqlnet    25277               87644
> parse cpu             1984               45973
>
> ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!
> --
> ----- Alice Erickson -------------------- Department of Family Medicine --
> aerickso_at_fammed.wisc.edu  263-3475  777 S. Mills Street  Madison, WI 53715
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