Just done a test (on Solaris), text correctly found. Only snag is of course with dba_waiters, dba_blockers and the like which are still built upon the V$views. May be an implementation issue. Regards, Stephane Faroult RoughSea Ltd http://www.roughsea.com On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:35 , rjamya <rjamya@xxxxxxxxx> sent: GV$ ... always. Raj On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:44:33 +0200, Stephane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx[1]> wrote: > > >Raj, > >Might it be that your sessions are attached to different instances? What >are you checking? V$ or GV$ views ? > >Regards, > >Stephane Faroult > >RoughSea Ltd >http://www.roughsea.com[2] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l[3] --- Links --- 1 javascript:parent.opencompose('sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx','','','') 2 modules/refer.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roughsea.com 3 modules/refer.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freelists.org%2Fwebpage%2Foracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l