Hi guys, Craig Shallahamer described this in one of his blog posts. http://shallahamer-orapub.blogspot.de/2014/08/what-is-oracle-elapsed-time-and-wall.html "Elapsed Time (ET) is all DB Time related to a defined task. … The elapsed time for a SQL_ID can be found in v$sql. But be careful because this elapsed time is related to "all" the SQL_ID executions. Thankfully, there is an "executions" column in v$sql. … non idle wait time = elapsed time - cpu time" Best Regards Stefan Koehler Oracle performance consultant and researcher Homepage: http://www.soocs.de Twitter: @OracleSK > Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 8. Dezember 2014 um 01:12 > geschrieben: > > > I believe that it does include sql net message time when many rows are being > returned to the client using multiple FETCH calls. > > Sent from my smart phone. > Hemant K Chitale > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l