On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:28:45 +0000, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The only opportunity to see real explain plan is to check V$SQL_PLAN, by > > my opinion. Or I am wrong? > > A problem in 8i, and in 10 you have DBA_HIST_SQL_PLAN for historical > plans. The latter is in principle great for folks like me who have > long suggested that a change in execution plan is worth investigating > secure in the knowledge that determining whether a plan has changed or > not is somewhat difficult in earlier versions... > > -- > Niall Litchfield In some sense I wonder why it took so long for this view to show up. It has been needed for a long time. Does anyone have a good select statement that prints the plan from v$sql_plan nicely? Thanks, Steven Patenaude -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l