Not an answer to your last question, but I've just posted up to my website an example of the sort of thing I use for collecting statistics. http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/snapshot.html Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html April 2004 Iceland http://www.index.is/oracleday.php June 2004 UK - Optimising Oracle Seminar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan" <ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:01 PM Subject: Re: Re: wierd runstats_pkg report : can someone point me to some good articles(other than the docs) on how to : use the v$stat.. etc... views and such? Have any of you written any? Same : with stuff on v$thread. : ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------