Hi Martin, Documentation is wrong. Conventional path inserts will be shown in "db block changes". Direct path load blocks are not shown in there though. Btw, you can use v$segment_statistics to get a segment level breakdown of logical reads vs db block changes. However I have to ask, what are you trying to achieve with this? Read vs write ratio isn't too useful statistic for people and business, especially if measured from such low level. -- Regards, Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Klier > Sent: 25 February 2009 11:44 > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: SYSSTAT statistics for buffer writes? > > > Dear list, > > I need to create a statistics overview for reads vs. writes > on a 10gR2 database. Desire is, to compare "session logical > reads" ('The sum of "db block gets" plus "consistent gets". > This includes logical reads of database blocks from either > the buffer cache or process private memory.' by 10g > documentation) with its counterpart in writing. I don't want > to gather information about phyiscal IO. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l