RE: V$SQLAREA vs. V$SQLTEXT

Well I'm unclear about the inconsistent wording in the docs:

"V$SQLTEXT

This view contains the text of SQL statements belonging to shared SQL cursors in the SGA."

"V$SQLAREA

This view lists statistics on shared SQL area and contains one row per SQL string. It provides statistics on SQL statements that are in memory, parsed, and ready for execution."

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Did you join these tables by HASH_VALUE to other tables (or to each other) and discover that quirky bug relating to the 32 bit arithmetic?

HASH_VALUE in v$sqltext is signed whereas HASH_VALUE in v$sqlarea is unsigned.

This can cause joins to fail. Check for negative HASH_VALUE in v$sqltext.

http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/lost_sql.html

Good Luck,
Ed

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:21 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Can a statement be in V$SQLAREA and not in V$SQLTEXT at the same time?

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