On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Wittry, Dan <dwittry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone – > > Forgive me if this has been asked before… how / where can I research what > the various wait events mean? I'm seeing an event called "messages" and that > is such a common word it is challenging for search engines to identify when > I search "oracle wait event messages". > The documentation is a good place to start. It appears likely you are not aware that the wait events are documented there, so here's a link. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14237/waitevents.htm#i968375 -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist