I have Oracle 8i (817), which runs pretty fast on NT.

However, when an error message is expected, such as a sql query with the wrong column name, it takes 1 to 2 minutes to return an error message. How do you tune it to be faster? Note that a correct command runs very fast.

The machine has 3GB RAM and 2 CPUs (Pentium IIIX 700MHz). Thanks.