Are you sure that the operation you were monitoring would have activity that would cause it to show in v$session_longops? Metalink note 68438.1 describes the kind of things that would show up in that view in an Oracle 8.1 database. There might be an updated Metalink note somewhere that shows the behaviour in Oracle 9.2 -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/