RE: when do you use v$statname?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG) wrote:

> v$statname is a lookup table for the statistic# that appears in v$sesstat
> and v$sysstat. You use it in most queries on those tables unless you're
> named Tanel and have memorised the statistic numbers. =)

Remember Oracle likes to change around all the statistic#s with every major release. So if you write (or memorize) something that relies on the statistic# being permanently associated with a particular statistic, it will break (give results for the wrong statistic) as soon as you upgrade.

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> This view seems to be a smaller subset of v$sysstat? When is it useful?


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