V$SQL_WORKAREA

This view displays information about work areas used by SQL cursors. Each SQL statement stored in the shared pool has one or more child cursors that are listed in the V$SQL view. V$SQL_WORKAREA lists all work areas needed by these child cursors; V$SQL_WORKAREA can be joined with V$SQLAREA on (ADDRESS, HASH_VALUE) and with V$SQL on (ADDRESS, HASH_VALUE, CHILD_NUMBER).

You can use this view to find out answers to the following questions:

• What are the top 10 work areas that require the most cache area?

• For work areas allocated in AUTO mode, what percentage of work areas are running using maximum memory?

  Column	Datatype	Description
  ADDRESS	RAW(4)	Address of the parent cursor handle
  HASH_VALUE	NUMBER	The hash value of the parent statement in the library cache. Two columns (PARENT_HANDLE, HASH_VALUE) can be used to join with V$SQLAREA to locate the parent cursor.
  CHILD_NUMBER	NUMBER	Child cursor number using this work area. The columns (PARENT_HANDLE, HASH_VALUE, CHILD_NUMBER) can be used to join with V$SQL to locate the child cursor using this area.
  WORKAREA_ADDRESS	RAW(4)	Address of the workarea handle. This is the "primary key" for the view.
  OPERATION_TYPE	VARCHAR2(20)	Type of operation using the work area (for example, SORT, HASH JOIN, GROUP BY, BUFFERING, BITMAP MERGE, BITMAP CREATE)
  OPERATION_ID	NUMBER	A unique number used to identify the operation in the execution plan. This identifier can be joined to V$SQL_PLAN to locate the operation that uses this work area.
  POLICY	VARCHAR2(10)	Sizing policy for this work area (MANUAL or AUTO)
  ESTIMATED_OPTIMAL_SIZE	NUMBER	Estimated size (in KB) required by this work area to execute the operation completely in memory (optimal execution). Derived from either optimizer statistics or previous executions.
  ESTIMATED_ONEPASS_SIZE	NUMBER	Estimated size (in KB) required by this work area to execute the operation in a single pass. Derived from either optimizer statistics or previous executions.
  LAST_MEMORY_USED	NUMBER	The memory (in KB) used by this work area during the last execution of the cursor
  LAST_EXECUTION	VARCHAR2(10)	Indicates whether this work area runs using OPTIMAL, ONE PASS, or ONE PASS memory requirement (or MULTI-PASS), during the last execution of the cursor
  TOTAL_EXECUTIONS	NUMBER	Number of times this work area was active
  OPTIMAL_EXECUTIONS	NUMBER	Number of times this work area ran in optimal mode
  ONEPASS_EXECUTIONS	NUMBER	Number of times this work area ran in one-pass mode
  MULTIPASSES_EXECUTIONS	NUMBER	Number of times this work area ran below the one-pass memory requirement
  ACTIVE_TIME	NUMBER	Average time this work area is active (in centi-seconds)