Hi Chen, I don't think it's in the SGA. You and I could reference the same SQL, and have different cursor #'s in our respective trace files. I suspect that information is private to the PGA, and I can't think where it would be mapped to an X$/V$.... Honestly, I think you're out of luck..... If anyone has any better ideas, I'd be happy to be wrong.... -Mark -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chen Shapira Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:04 PM To: Daniel Fink; oracle-l Subject: Re: Trying to locate a cursor with very little information I don't have the sql text in the trace file, but Oracle still have the cursor in the shared pool. And Oracle knows that cursor #2 from a specific process is related to a specific open cursor in the pool (otherwise exec and fetch calls would fail). So there must be a way to find the sql text from Oracle's SGA. I was hoping someone already figured it out... Chen On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Daniel Fink<daniel.fink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you don't have the PARSE or PARSING lines, you won't have the sql text. > However, if the STAT lines were written, you might be able to reverse > engineer the statement from the plan. Use the STAT lines to see what plans > use those operations and what statements use those plans. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l