DML on dual?

From: Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring_at_acxiom.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:41:39 -0500
Message-ID: <7ED53A68952D3B4C9540B4EFA5C76E360312FE97@CWYMSX04.Corp.Acxiom.net>

Folks,

I've got an odd problem on our production database where it seems physical writes and row lock waits are happening on SYS.DUAL. These are not causing any major performance problems, but it concerns me that some sort of DML (I'm assuming) is being performed against SYS.DUAL, which in my mind should never happen.

I came to the conclusion about DML against SYS.DUAL based on data from STATS$SEG_STAT for that segment, where I see physical writes and row lock waits, at most 100 or so per day.

I've set auditing on for INSERT, UPDATE, LOCK, DELETE on SYS.DUAL, but nothing has shown up. I've search V$SQL for any SQL statement referencing DUAL/SYS.DUAL but have found nothing beyond SELECT statements.

Anyone else see this behavior and/or have any clues on how to track what's causing this activity?

Database is 9.2.0.6, on Tru64 5.1b, 10 x 40GB GS1280 server.

Thanks.

Dave

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