The Time column from DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY.AWR_SQL_REPORT_HTML and dbms_xplan.display_cursor is an estimation on how long the statement is believed to run based on the CBO costing model. I find it frequently inaccurate so I would probably ignore it for now and try and understand the plans a bit better. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:08 AM, <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > but at the moment I'm just trying to understand what the time field is > trying to tell me. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l