Whenever I have done comparisons of different sql to produce the same result, the bytes sent via SQL*Net were always the same - maybe wrong, but at least consistently wrong. Cary Millsap wrote: > I'm almost positive that the byte counts on these two statistics are > incorrect anyway... At least, the byte count on these two events as > published in the 10046 output is ALWAYS incorrect (they always say p2=1, > which is always wrong). You can verify this yourself with strace. > > - Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l