> I've been following up on your feedback. The Help link in Grid Control does > indeed state that the information is coming from AWR and ASH for 10g. I > doubt this is true however, since in GC I can scroll back in history past > the oldest available snapshot from target DB's DBA_HIST_* tables. I also Hmmm...it appears that I'm confusing the views for ASH and AWR. > have 10gR1, and I believe ASH wasn't available until 10gR2. And I was thinking seems to be the "ASH Report" and not ASH itself. > I think I'm going to open an SR and find out. Hopefully I'll get the answer > I'm looking for. I tracked it down to a session on the target DB that was of course reading through DBA_HIST_ACTIVE_SESS_HISTORY. I think I can take it from there. And I need to read up on ASH. The lesson here for me is that I've become too GUIfied for my own good! Thanks, Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l