Boris >3) Another stupid question, just taking advantage of >you being here - do you know when EXACTLY >v$sql_plan_statistics gets populated? Sometimes I get >a result set back sometime ago, and the plan is >visible in v$sql_plan, but the stats are still all >zeros in v$sql_plan_statistics. One possibility is that the SQL statement is still running. In fact the execution stats are available only when the execution is over. HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l