In addition, you can also use dbms.xplan to show xplan using awr data something like display-cursor-awr. Plz lookup package for exact syntax. -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Naim <kennaim@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:52 PM To: 'Riyaj Shamsudeen' <riyaj.shamsudeen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Parallel Threads It seems my research is for naught as the os team decided to add fiber cards last night and bounced the box. Next weekend when this issue happens again, I'll be ready to find out why. Thanks for all the info, Ken _____ From: Riyaj Shamsudeen [mailto:riyaj.shamsudeen@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:51 AM To: Kenneth Naim Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Parallel Threads DBA_HIST_ACTIVE_SESS_HISTORY should give you historical data. -- Cheers Riyaj Shamsudeen Principal DBA, Ora!nternals - http://www.orainternals.com Specialists in Performance, Recovery and EBS11i Blog: http://orainternals.wordpress.com On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Kenneth Naim <kennaim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Original message: Seem my v$active_session_history view only has data for the last two hours. Is this the default config, if so how can I change it? Thanks, Ken From: Riyaj Shamsudeen [mailto:riyaj.shamsudeen@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:48 AM To: kennaim@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Parallel Threads Hi Ken What version of Oracle ? If you have access to ASH data, v$active_session_history has three columns qc_instance_id, qc_session_id and qc_session_serial# can be used to see how many slaves were used by a query at a specific point in time. select to_char(sample_time, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH:MI:SS') tm, QC_INSTANCE_ID, QC_SESSION_ID,count(*) from v$active_session_history where QC_SESSION_ID is not null and session_id != qc_session_id group by to_char(sample_time, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH:MI:SS'),QC_SESSION_ID, QC_INSTANCE_ID order by 1 / TO_CHAR(SAMPLE_TIME,'DD-MO QC_INSTANCE_ID QC_SESSION_ID COUNT(*) -------------------------- -------------- ------------- ---------- 11-MAR-2009 02:47:34 1 1187 4 11-MAR-2009 02:47:34 1 1574 1 11-MAR-2009 02:47:35 1 1574 2 11-MAR-2009 02:47:36 1 1187 12 11-MAR-2009 02:47:37 1 1187 12 11-MAR-2009 02:47:37 1 1574 12 11-MAR-2009 02:47:40 1 1187 1 11-MAR-2009 02:47:40 1 1574 2 11-MAR-2009 02:47:42 1 1187 3 11-MAR-2009 02:47:42 1 1574 3 11-MAR-2009 02:47:43 1 1187 3 .... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l