Vivek, What time period is the snapshot for? I've seen application running on application servers that make this call frequently. Each execution is only about 5 milliseconds but there are over 13,000 executions. It the snapshot time period is something like 2 hours then I would conclude that the % of total is high because not much else is happening and it's nothing to worry about. Keith > P.S. Bad SQL:- > > SQL ordered by CPU DB/Inst: LOSDB/LOSDB Snaps: 552-554 > -> Resources reported for PL/SQL code includes the resources used by all SQL > statements called by the code. > -> Total DB CPU (s): 121 > -> Captured SQL accounts for 78.9% of Total DB CPU > -> SQL reported below exceeded 1.0% of Total DB CPU > > CPU CPU per Elapsd Old > Time (s) Executions Exec (s) %Total Time (s) Buffer Gets Hash > Value > ---------- ------------ ---------- ------ ---------- --------------- > ---------- > 60.09 13,016 0.00 49.7 60.10 0 > 1702556642 > Module: JDBC Thin Client > SELECT VALUE FROM NLS_INSTANCE_PARAMETERS WHERE PARAMETER ='NLS_DATE_FORMAT' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l