V$SQL_PLAN_MONITOR displays plan level monitoring statistics for each SQL statement found in V$SQL_MONITOR. Each row in V$SQL_PLAN_MONITOR corresponds to an operation of the execution plan being monitored. As with V$SQL_MONITOR, statistics exposed in V$SQL_PLAN_MONITOR are generally updated every second when the statement executes. These statistics are recycled on the same basis as V$SQL_MONITOR.
To eliminate the overhead of SQL plan monitoring, statistics collected for each operation of the plan do not record timing information such as elapsed time, CPU time, or I/O time. Instead, this timing information can be estimated quite accurately by joining V$SQL_PLAN_MONITOR with V$ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY on SQL_ID, SQL_EXEC_START, SQL_EXEC_ID, and SQL_PLAN_LINE_ID (simply named PLAN_LINE_ID in V$SQL_PLAN_MONITOR). The result of that join is a sample of the activity performed by each operation in the plan, from which an estimate of CPU time and wait time can be derived. This can be achieved by breaking statement level monitoring time statistics found in V$SQL_MONITOR in proportion to the number of samples found in V$ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY for the corresponding activity type.
| Column | Datatype | Description |
| KEY | NUMBER | Foreign key to efficiently join V$SQL_PLAN_MONITOR with V$SQL_MONITOR (see V$SQL_MONITOR) |
| STATUS | VARCHAR2(19) | SQL execution status:
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| FIRST_REFRESH_TIME | DATE | Time when monitoring of the SQL statement started |
| LAST_REFRESH_TIME | DATE | Time when statistics were last updated for the SQL statement |
| FIRST_CHANGE_TIME | DATE | First time a row was produced by this operation |
| LAST_CHANGE_TIME | DATE | Last time a row was produced by this operation |
| REFRESH_COUNT | NUMBER | Number of times statistics have been refreshed |
| SID | NUMBER | Session identifier executing (or having executed) the SQL statement being monitored |
| PROCESS_NAME | VARCHAR2(5) | Process name identifier |
| SQL_ID | VARCHAR2(13) | SQL identifier |
| SQL_EXEC_START | DATE | Time when the execution started |
| SQL_EXEC_ID | NUMBER | Execution identifier |
| SQL_PLAN_HASH_VALUE | NUMBER | SQL plan hash value |
| SQL_CHILD_ADDRESS | RAW(4 | 8) | Address of the child cursor |
| PLAN_LINE_ID | NUMBER | Plan line number for the entry |
| PLAN_OPERATION | VARCHAR2(30) | Plan operation name (from V$SQL_PLAN) |
| PLAN_OPTIONS | VARCHAR2(30) | Plan option name (from V$SQL_PLAN) |
| STARTS | NUMBER | Number of times this operation was executed. For example, an operation is executed multiple times when it is on the right side of a nested-loop join (once for each row of the left input of that nested-loop join). |
| OUTPUT_ROWS | NUMBER | Number of rows produced by this operation since the execution started. This number is cumulated for all executions of this operation. Divide by the value of the STARTS column to compute the average number of rows per execution of the operation. |
| WORKAREA_MEM | NUMBER | Amount of memory (in bytes) used by the operation when the query is executing; NULL if the execution is done. This applies only to operations using a work area, such as sort, hash-join, group-by, and so on. |
| WORKAREA_MAX_MEM | NUMBER | Maximum value (in bytes) for WORKAREA_MEM; NULL if the operation is not using a work area. When the execution is finished, this value will hold the maximum amount of memory consumed by this operation during the execution of the statement. |
| WORKAREA_TEMPSEG | NUMBER | Amount of temporary space (in bytes) used by the operation when the query is executing; NULL if the operation has not spilled to disk or if the execution is finished |
| WORKAREA_MAX_TEMPSEG | NUMBER | Maximum value (in bytes) for WORKAREA_TEMPSEG; NULL if this operation never spilled to disk. When the execution is done, this value will hold the maximum amount of temporary space consumed by this operation during the entire execution. |
Oracle dynamic performance views
| Last updated: July 07, 2009 |
