Agreed But there is no guarantee that the plan showed in explain plan (by using explain=<>) was really used by the process. amit Quoting Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Wolfgang > > >However, unless you are dealing with traces > >of Oracle 7 systems, there should be no need > >to use the explain option on tkprof. The > >trace already contains the execution plan > >in the form of STAT lines and tkprof will > >format them. > > Amit > > >But why do you need to run it with explain > >parameter. The actual plan used would be > >present in tkprof as row source operations > >anyway > > If Jaffar is working on a system where the > cursors are "never" closed, the STAT line > will not be in the tracefile. Thus the > parameter explain could be interesting. > > If it's not the case, I agree with you. > > > Regards, > Chris > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l