On Apr 7, 2005 7:08 PM, Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, I was wondering about that. I always use > "elapsed_time/greatest(executions,1)" to avoid division by zero problems. > > > Mohammad Rafiq wrote: > > > Stephen > > > > Are you sure it ran successfully? I got error on a 9206 database on W2000. > > Regards > > and (a.elapsed_time/(1000000*a.executions)) > 5 > > * > > ERROR at line 9: > > ORA-01476: divisor is equal to zero I ran it on 9206 on Solaris. That error is basically saying that a.executions=0. Thing is the preceding part of the where clause is a.executions>0 so there should be no way a.executions=0. The only thing that comes to mind is that Oracle is trying to evaluate the "(a.elapsed_time/(1000000*a.executions)) > 5" before the "a.executions > 0". You could change it to and (a.elapsed_time/(1000000*greatest(a.executions,1))) > 5 but that shouldn't be necessary. I'm home now and don't have access to an Oracle server but I'll test it again in the morning. Stephen -- It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l