Alan, can you specify 'blocking'? In general, as v$ views are accessing SGA data more or less directly, you can need a latch so the x$ 'tables' are not changed during access. Of course that can take a while. Where came the alert from? Martin Am 21.01.2011 um 22:01 schrieb Guillermo Alan Bort: > A colleague was running this query: > > select * > > from v$sql_bind_capture > > where sql_id in ( > > 'b501tjnwb31zw', > > 'd88z78qwf8rn6', > > 'd0w015tn4pc1j', > > '9rwzxss9t1quz' > > ); > > > > > > And we got an alert that he was blocking other sessions. > > Anyone ever experienced something like this? > > Alan.-