Hi all, I was running a transaction and I was looking into v$transaction on the usage of undo blocks. While monitoring sometimes it returned 2 or 3 rows, but mostly one row. What do the second and third row represent in this case: 12:33:35 SQL> select XIDUSN, START_TIME, SES_ADDR, NAME, USED_UBLK, STATUS 12:34:18 2 from v$transaction 12:34:31 3 where SES_ADDR = 'BA7664FC'; XIDUSN START_TIME SES_ADDR ---------- -------------------- -------- NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USED_UBLK STATUS ---------- ---------------- 8 11/26/06 11:49:25 BA7664FC 127101 ACTIVE 12:34:52 SQL> / XIDUSN START_TIME SES_ADDR ---------- -------------------- -------- NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USED_UBLK STATUS ---------- ---------------- 8 11/26/06 11:49:25 BA7664FC 127897 ACTIVE 12:35:10 SQL> / /************* THREE ROWS RETURNED HERE ***********************************************/ XIDUSN START_TIME SES_ADDR ---------- -------------------- -------- NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USED_UBLK STATUS ---------- ---------------- 8 11/26/06 12:35:13 BA7664FC 0 INACTIVE 8 11/26/06 11:49:25 BA7664FC 128023 ACTIVE 8 11/26/06 12:35:13 BA7664FC 2 ACTIVE 12:35:13 SQL> l 1 select XIDUSN, START_TIME, SES_ADDR, NAME, USED_UBLK, STATUS 2 from v$transaction 3* where SES_ADDR = 'BA7664FC' 12:35:20 SQL> / XIDUSN START_TIME SES_ADDR ---------- -------------------- -------- NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USED_UBLK STATUS ---------- ---------------- 8 11/26/06 11:49:25 BA7664FC 128373 ACTIVE 12:35:21 SQL> 12:36:11 SQL> / /************* TWO ROWS RETURNED HERE ***********************************************/ XIDUSN START_TIME SES_ADDR ---------- -------------------- -------- NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USED_UBLK STATUS ---------- ---------------- 8 11/26/06 11:49:25 BA7664FC 130772 ACTIVE 8 11/26/06 12:36:11 BA7664FC 3 ACTIVE 12:36:11 SQL> Oracle is 9.2 -- Cheers, Rob :)