On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG) wrote:

> v$statname is a lookup table for the statistic# that appears in v$sesstat
> and v$sysstat. You use it in most queries on those tables unless you're
> named Tanel and have memorised the statistic numbers.  =)

Remember Oracle likes to change around all the statistic#s with every
major release.  So if you write (or memorize) something that relies on
the statistic# being permanently associated with a particular
statistic, it will break (give results for the wrong statistic) as
soon as you upgrade.

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> This view seems to be a smaller subset of v$sysstat? When is it useful?

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