Hi, Comments in line > These tools are very good but for more advanced Oracle > technicians tkprof + v$ views + simple OS commands are > giving you all the necessary info for free. My profiler and also others are free and with source code. You can think of them as a tkprof substitutes. > Need to admit that only ugly thing for me is to get > graph representation in Excell for the spread of time > spent on some action/SQL/... Excel costomized output can be added to my profiler simply adding a new output format and reusing the analysis/input classes. ...... =20 Regards, Giovanni =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Another free oracle resource profiler http://sourceforge.net/projects/oraresprof/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l