On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:53:54 -0700 (PDT), David <thump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a db where exec to parse ratio is bad. One update is parsing for > each execute. Any thoughts on why? > Could be soft parses. What version of Oracle? This will show instance wide parses: select decode(class, 1,'User', 2,'Redo', 4,'Enqueue', 8,'Cache', 16,'OS', 32,'Parallel Server', 64,'SQL', 128,'Debug' ) class_name ,name ,value from v$sysstat where upper(name) like '%PARSE%' order by class_name, name Take a look at hard parses vs parse total. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l