Month: April 2013

When v$session_longops is not long enough

With large table scans, sometimes the estimated total work is far beyond reality SQL> select message from v$session_longops where target=’SCOTT.EMP’; MESSAGE ———————————————————— Table Scan: SCOTT.EMP: 7377612 out of 629683 Blocks done The total work is the Oracle estimation : SQL> select blocks from dba_tables where table_name=’EMP’; BLOCKS ———- 629683 This may differ quite a lot […]