This is another of the blog notes that have been sitting around for several years – in this case since May 2014, based on a script I wrote a year earlier. It makes an important point about “inconsistency” of timing in the way that Oracle records statistics of work done. As a consequence of being first drafted in May 2014 the original examples showed AWR results from 10.2.0.5 and 11.2.0.4 – I’ve just run the same test on 19.3.0.0 to see if anything has changed.