A page for the dedicated fanatic, that crawls around inside the database engine and let you find out all those things you don't need to know which might not be true in the next release anyway.
| Title | Content | Last update |
| Sort Usage | A correction to v$sort_usage in Oracle 8.1.5 | 24-Nov-2000 |
| Block Dump | How to dump an Oracle 8 block | 07-Sep-1999 |
| Losing SQL text | A minor bug in v$sql et. al. that 'loses' SQL text | 07-Sep-1999 |
| commitscn | A bizarre undocumented feature | 25-May-1999 |
| Block Dump 7 | How to dump an Oracle 7 block. | 18-May-1999 |
| Buffer Flag | Interpreting the x$bh buffer header flag | 30-Apr-1999 |
| Cache | How Oracle 7 handles small tables and caching | 22-Apr-1999 |
| 3 Buffers | Oracle 8's answer to Placido Domingo et. al. (and caching) | 22-Apr-1999 |
| Losing SQL text | A minor bug in v$sql et. al. that 'loses' SQL text | 22-Apr-1999 |
| Parameter list | Yet another simple (Oracle 8) dump of the current parameter list | 03-Mar-1999 |
| smon | What does SMON do. | 08-Jan-1999 |
| Old V$ | What's been around but ignored in V$ for Oracle 7 | 26-Feb-1999 |
| PQ Costs | How effective was your last Parallel Query | 17-Feb-1999 |
| New V$s | What's new in the V$ area for Oracle 8 (and a symmetric difference) | 03-Feb-1999 |
| Waiting for files | An undocumented (X$) object to see where v$waitstat is happening | 21-Jan-1999 |
| V$ Views | V$ Views - a health warning | 14-Jan-1999 |
| Buffer content | What is in the db_block_buffer now (Oracle 8.0) | 08-Jan-1999 |