AFAIK and experienced, excessive access to some V$ views might cause some contention on latches. At least we experienced that in few db instances with one of our monitoring scripts. We think we hit the bug that accesing particular V$ table can lead for a long hold time of a latch. Well as V$ views are based on X$ memory structures, access to them is protected with latches. This is my understanding and that's what we've been told by Oracle support in that case. 2005/10/17, Fred Smith <fred_fred_1@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello all, > Just wanted to get your thoughts ... is there any "danger" to granting > developers the SELECT ANY DICTIONARY role in the database? (IMHO, they don't > particulary need such "open" access, however tools such as OEM require it > for login apparently). -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l