RE: Simple insert - 36,000 physical reads

Indexes?  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Williams Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:55 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Simple insert - 36,000 physical reads  

List,  

Oracle 10.2.0.4, Solaris 8  

I've found a simple insert that has:

     1 execution

     2,512,102 Buffer Gets

     36,479 Physical Reads

     1 Parse call

     1 Row  

This insert statement appears quite a few times in the AWR report, and for the times I see it, the statistics are pretty close to what I've listed. The insert just has a list of columns and a list of values. No subqueries. There is a TO_DATE conversion on two columns.This is a real table, not a view.  

Does anyone have any suggestions of why a simple insert could cause this much database activity?  

Thanks to Brandon for suggesting awrsqrpt.sql in response to another question. That is a great tool.  

Dennis Williams

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