Just a quick question, in a trace file sample below, what is the wait_time measured in? Clearly it's not seconds unless I have a serious problem... (I tried finding the answer on Metalink but searching for this specific question is hard to get the results I needed) SO: 0x18347e0de8, type: 4, owner: 0x183ede9958, flag: INIT/-/-/0x00 (session) sid: 5321 trans: 0x17f4e15ce0, creator: 0x183ede9958, flag: (40000045) USR/- BSY/-/-/-/-/- DID: 0001-008A-000005EE, short-term DID: 0000-0000-00000000 txn branch: (nil) oct: 189, prv: 0, sql: 0x16ee592400, psql: 0x16c4dd9240, user: 92/CONCUITY service name: xxxxx O/S info: user: xxxxx, term: unknown, ospid: , machine: xxxxxxx program: xxxx application name: xxxxx, hash value%46894660 waiting for 'enq: TM - contention' blocking sess=0x(nil) seq8 wait_time=0 seconds since wait started16 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 Dumping Session Wait History for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_time24204 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9265 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9258 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9273 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9262 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9264 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9265 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9258 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9276 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 for 'enq: TM - contention' count=1 wait_timeH9255 name|modeT4d0004, object #;1cd, table/partition=0 temporary object counter: 0 Chris Taylor Oracle DBA Parallon IT&S -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l