Andrew, AWR reports delta values, not cumulative statistics. It reports the delta values from the columns of dba_hist_sqlstat like buffer_gets_delta. Here is a part of an sql run by a 10.2 awrrpt.sql ... sum(disk_reads_delta) dskr, sum(executions_delta) exec, sum(cpu_time_delta) cput, sum(elapsed_time_delta) elap ... from dba_hist_sqlstat where dbid = :dbid and instance_number = :inst_num and :bid < snap_id and snap_id <= :eid group by sql_id) ... From: Andrew Kerber [mailto:andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:57 PM To: john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Yasin Baskan; dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Oracle L Subject: Re: explain plan, can you explain this? And then, you have to do it again for AWR. AWR does report cumulative statistics. On Jan 10, 2008 11:36 AM, John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > John, are you sure that statspack reports sql statistics cumulatively? Yasin and Allen, You are right: My bad. STATSPACK indeed does report the differences. This myth of mine was self-created, probably from early days of STATSPACK. Thank you for setting me right. This reminds me once more to re-validate everything I know. Regards, -- John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkanagaraj http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com (Sorry - not an Oracle blog!) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'