Interestingly, with reference to:
"Spinning in memory is relatively rare and can be constructed with Connor McDonald's sinister "hit ratio adjusting tool" but I didn't see to many of it in real life."
In my experience, its all too common... in particular queries to dual - heaps and heaps of
select user from dual select sysdate from dual select <sequence>.nextval from dual select <simple expression> from dual
dual...dual....dual....dual....dual.....aarrrggghhh!
closely followed by:
select <description> from <generic_application_wide_reference_lookup_table> where domain = ... and surrogate_key = ...
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