Thanks for the explanation, Ian.

Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.
            -- G.I. Joe
:)

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MacGregor, Ian A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:40 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Statspack Intervals
> 
> 
> I don't think it will.  V$SQLAREA gives information  on 
> executions, disk reads, logical reads, etc.
> It tells nothing about waits.   Joining the two tables you 
> mention  does not show you who has been running the queries, 
> just who parsed them originally. Yes, the rest of statspack 
> does have information on wait events but it is  not tied back 
> to the queries which caused them.
> 
> Developers sometimes call complaining of problems with third 
> party products.  There are products on the market which 
> manipulate data by  fetching it from the database, performing 
>  the change on the client, and pushing it back to the 
> database.  If a user called while the process was running, 
> you'd look at V$SESSION_WAIT and see that the database was 
> waiting on the client to process the data.  You would then 
> tell the developer,  that it's that #$%!*! third party 
> product causing the delay.
> 
> What happens if the developer mentions the problem the next 
> day.  Do you ask them to repeat the job so it can be 
> monitored?  I want to be able to look at the wait events of 
> the session that ran the job the previous day.
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