I ran a similar query to give all sums by event and minute from 11:15 to 11:45 (the alert log items first popped up at 11:23). http://pastebin.com/m426111d8 Much thanks in advance! Don. On 9/14/07, Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Don, > > Can we see the following? > > select event, sum(time_waited) tw > from dba_hist_active_sess_history > where to_char(sample_time,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi')='<first minute of problem> > > Please also provide this for the two or three minutes preceding the > problem, and a minute with no problems from well before the issue. When > finding the first minute, it is important you find the first minute when > things were not looking normal in dba_hist_active_sess_history, not > necessarily the first minute things were noticeably bad on the database. -- Don Seiler oracle: http://ora.seiler.us ultimate: http://www.mufc.us -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l