Egor >> 2) At the beginning of the trace file where no statement has been parsed yet. >I think that even if 'WAIT' line is printed before 'PARSING IN CURSOR' >line, it should still have nonzero #<CURSOR>. Here an example... /dbms/oracle/AVALOQ40/udump/avaloq40_ora_5247216.trc Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production ORACLE_HOME = /app/oracle/product/9.2.0.5 System name: AIX Node name: zsi-aix597p4 Release: 2 Version: 5 Machine: 00C9B9FE4C00 Instance name: AVALOQ40 Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1 Oracle process number: 80 Unix process pid: 5247216, image: oracle@zsi-aix597p4 (TNS V1-V3) *** SESSION ID:(78.831) 2005-07-27 13:09:05.905 WAIT #0: nam='SQL*Net message to client' ela= 1 p1=1413697536 p2=1 p3=0 WAIT #0: nam='SQL*Net message from client' ela= 455 p1=1413697536 p2=1 p3=0 ===================== PARSING IN CURSOR #3 len=147 dep=1 uid=0 oct=3 lid=0 tim=1096154829987609 hv=1356713530 ad='e2b1e470' select privilege#,level from sysauth$ connect by grantee#=prior privilege# and privilege#>0 start with (grantee#=:1 or grantee#=1) and privilege#>0 END OF STMT ... Regards, Chris New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ www.trivadis.com Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) Français: Genève (17-Nov) Deutsch: Zürich (11-Oct), Hamburg (13-Oct), München (20-Oct), Basel (25-Oct), Frankfurt (27-Oct), Bern (8-Nov), Düsseldorf (23-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l