I hope people won’t take this as a suggestion that I want them to start using this blog like a forum – but I’d like to highlight a note written some time ago by Randolf Geist on the OTN DBA Forum: HOW TO: Post a SQL statement tuning request – template posting It’s worth following his link to the related posting by Rob van Wijk.
If you want to post a question on the Oracle forums, or newsgroups, or the list servers, (or even raise an SR) you need to think a little carefully about the information that you know but aren’t telling everyone else about. Even following the suggestions from Randolf and Rob it’s still likely that someone will ask you for more information – but at least with their guideline you’ve given other people a possible starting point for understanding your problem.