I've never tried to interpret that data. However, you can do a 10046 trace. If you do trace at level 1, you get basic trace. At level 4, you also get bind data, at level 8 you get wait events, and at level 12 you get both binds and waits. alter session set events '1004 trace name context level n, context forever'; Replace the 'n' in the previous line with 1,4,8, or 12, as described above. You can also use the DBMS_SUPPORT package to turn trace on and off. Describe DBMS_SUPPORT for more info. Hope that helps, -Mark On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:46 -0500, Schultz, Charles wrote: > The documentation is rather flimsy on this column. I learned a lot > when I read that the description of "bind_data" is "Bind data". Well > blow me down! =) > > Does anyone know how this RAW value is formatted? Or, if there is a > better way to grab bind variables from the data dictionary, please let > me know. > > Thanks much, > > charles schultz > oracle dba > aits - adsd > university of illinois > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l