Hi: According to metalink, the definition of these columns in v$sql are: EXECUTIONS NUMBER The total number of executions, totalled over all the children USERS_EXECUTING NUMBER The total number of users executing the statement over all children PARSE_CALLS NUMBER The sum of all parse calls to all the child cursors under this parent Now I have a table called WEEKLY in my 8173 schema, so I did: MT@rex-SQL> select PARSE_CALLS ,EXECUTIONS ,USERS_EXECUTING, sql_text from v$sql where sql_text like 'select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY%'; PARSE_CALLS EXECUTIONS USERS_EXECUTING ----------- ---------- --------------- SQL_TEXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1 1 0 select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY -- I thought I should get 0,0,0 becuase I have not executed 'select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY' yet. MT@rex-SQL> / PARSE_CALLS EXECUTIONS USERS_EXECUTING ----------- ---------- --------------- SQL_TEXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 1 1 0 select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY MT@rex-SQL> select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY; COUNT(*) ---------- 926 MT@rex-SQL> select PARSE_CALLS ,EXECUTIONS ,USERS_EXECUTING, sql_text from v$sql where sql_text like 'select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY%'; PARSE_CALLS EXECUTIONS USERS_EXECUTING ----------- ---------- --------------- SQL_TEXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 2 2 0 select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY -- Why it is not 2,2,1 (assuming 1,1,0 was correct) ? MT@rex-SQL> select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY; COUNT(*) ---------- 926 MT@rex-SQL> select PARSE_CALLS ,EXECUTIONS ,USERS_EXECUTING, sql_text from v$sql where sql_text like 'select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY%'; 2 PARSE_CALLS EXECUTIONS USERS_EXECUTING ----------- ---------- --------------- SQL_TEXT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 3 3 0 select COUNT(*) from WEEKLY -- Why it is not 2,3,1 (again assuming 2,2,0 was correct) ? Does PARSE_CALLS include both hard parse and soft parse? Probably my understanding of v$sql column was not correct. My goal is to find what the number of "parse" and "execution" BEFORE and AFTER a specific dynamic sql statement (executed by using native dynamic sql method), so that I know if the sql statement is hard parsed every time. Is it true that even if I pass the exact same sql every time when it is called in native dynamic sql, it is still hard parsed each time? TIA. Guang ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------