HELP: Hanging Autotrace

Good morning everyone,

I'm trying to help out our user community here by tuning up some queries.  Should be easy, right?  Well I don't have dba privs and I have a crappy old W98 PC w/200-some processor.  when I issue SET AUTOTRACE TRACEONLY EXPLAIN and start a query, it takes a loooong time to come back.  It took me 30 minutes to get a trace back.  The dba (in Arkansas) gets his autotraces to come back in three seconds, of course he is where the host is.  They are not willing to give me a unix account.  Gee, I wouldn't trust me either.  I'm such an OS hacker (yea, right) and a huge threat (puh-lease) and for petes sake I am trying to help the users - something him and his team absolutely do not do.

Has anyone seen this before? 

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
954-935-4117
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