Oh dear <blush>. Not at all, Wolfgang. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Nullius in verba Hotsos Symposium 2007 / March 4-8 / Dallas Visit www.hotsos.com for curriculum and schedule details... -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Breitling [mailto:breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:09 PM To: Cary Millsap Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: *Measuring sql performance (elapsed time and scalability) by number of logical reads Thanks for the correction, Cary. My apologies for insinuating it wasn't. Quoting Cary Millsap <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx>: > "You can't tell how long something took by counting how many times it > happened." > > This one is actually my own. > -- regards Wolfgang Breitling Oracle 7,8,8i,9i OCP DBA Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l