Here's the scene:

1) I have a 400,000 row table table which is cached.

2) I have a query against that table and no other with one column referenced
in the WHERE clause. (This column is indexed and of course I don't really
need the index since the table is cached but it's there so ho hum...)

3) When I run tkprof on the query it shows a full table scan ignoring the
index... that's what I want 'cause it's cached.

4) But when I look at V$SQLAREA the DISK_READS column is incremented.

5) This query is executed very often so my StatsPack report lists it as one
of the most expensive queries in terms of physical reads.


It appears that Oracle is counting full table scans of cached tables as
DISK_READS in V$SQLAREA. Seems like this is a bug to me 'cause it's not
really a physical disk read but is getting data from the buffers. 

Don't you think this is a bug? Has anyone seen this before?


Steve Orr
Looking for cache in Bozeman, Montana
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