Well, we got an EM alert saying SESSION x (I don't remember the session number) is blocking 1153 sessions... Apparently it was a latch contention... weird Alan.- On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Martin Berger <martin.a.berger@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Alan, > > can you specify 'blocking'? > > In general, as v$ views are accessing SGA data more or less directly, you > can need a latch so the x$ 'tables' are not changed during access. Of course > that can take a while. > > Where came the alert from? > > Martin > > > Am 21.01.2011 um 22:01 schrieb Guillermo Alan Bort: > > A colleague was running this query: > > select * > > from v$sql_bind_capture > > where sql_id in ( > > 'b501tjnwb31zw', > > 'd88z78qwf8rn6', > > 'd0w015tn4pc1j', > > '9rwzxss9t1quz' > > ); > > > > > And we got an alert that he was blocking other sessions. > > Anyone ever experienced something like this? > > Alan.- > > >