Different literals will generate a different sql_id; queries using bind variables can generate multiple child cursors when the bind data changes. David Fitzjarrell ________________________________ From: "Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oratune@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:56 PM Subject: RE: DBA_HIST_SQLSTAT I believe child cursors are different versions of the same statement - I believe this comes into play with literals. So that if a SQL statement varies by a literal in the Predicate for example, I believe it becomes a new child - since its the not exact same SQL but is effectively the same. I may be mistaken on that (or my wording/understanding of it). Chris -----Original Message----- From: Walker, Jed S [mailto:Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:53 PM To: andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oratune@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Taylor Christopher - Nashville; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: DBA_HIST_SQLSTAT I've been looking at this now and am wondering about VERSION_COUNT. The definition is "Number of children associated with the cursor". What exactly is meant by children? -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Klock Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:25 PM To: oratune@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: DBA_HIST_SQLSTAT On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Fitzjarrell <oratune@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > They don't, actually. The executions_total is the total executions > since the database was started, the elapsed_time_total is the total since the > db > was started and the deltas are for each snapshot and don't roll up. I > came into a shop where a script was running to generate execution > time reports for long-running queries but it didn't take into account > that the deltas don't roll up. I rewrote it to provide total > execution times across snapshots for a given sql_id: > My experience is hit and miss when making calculations with executions_total and executions_delta. The reason being these numbers aren't cumulative to the start of the instance but rather since the time they've been in the library cache. (same as v$sqlstats). So, sometimes for long running queries (that span across multiple snapshots) it's possible that they will never show an execution in AWR. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l