sql monitoring ⁽²⁾

I have been checking out some usage patterns on a database I am migrating to Exadata. I won't go into the 'drop all of the indexes' herd mentality... but I would like to know what is really being used on this system so we can…

Here are two runs of the same SQL from different programs. The top is an automated process, the bottom is Toad. (SQL is the same, but SQL_ID is different because of white space issues): So why is one finished in 7.2 minutes and one still…