V$SQL,V$SQLAREA,V$SQLTEXT

V$SQL*表用于查看Shared SQL Area中SQL情况

V$SQLTEXT

V$SQLTEXT用途很简单，就是用来查看完整的SQL语句，V$SQL和V$SQLAREA只能显示1000 bytes，且特殊字符用空格替代。

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

Column Datatype Description

ADDRESS	RAW(4 | 8)	Used with HASH_VALUE to uniquely identify a cached cursor
HASH_VALUE	NUMBER	Used with ADDRESS to uniquely identify a cached cursor
SQL_ID	VARCHAR2(13)	SQL identifier of a cached cursor
COMMAND_TYPE	NUMBER	Code for the type of SQL statement (SELECT, INSERT, and so on)
PIECE	NUMBER	Number used to order the pieces of SQL text
SQL_TEXT	VARCHAR2(64)	A column containing one piece of the SQL text

Example:

SELECT 'PTIAN' FROM DUAL;

SELECT * FROM V$SQLTEXT WHERE SQL_TEXT LIKE '%PTIAN%';

Output:

ADDRESS HASH_VALUE SQL_ID COMMAND_TYPE PIECE SQL_TEXT

000000008774FF80	2034677615	57zcfn1wnddvg	3	0	select * from v$sqltext where SQL_TEXT LIKE '%PTIAN%'
000000008760AC20	2521097521	ak2vyjub49t9j	3	0	SELECT 'PTIAN' FROM DUAL

V$SQL & V$SQLAREA

V$SQL , V$SQLAREA很类似，看下Tom的解释：

v$sql the details -- if you have multiple copies of the query:
"select * from T"
in your shared pool, v$sql will have a row per query. This can happen if user U1 and user U2 both have a table T and both issue "select * from T". Those are entirely different queries with different plans and so on. v$sql will have 2 rows.
v$sqlarea is a aggregate of v$sql. It selects out DISTINCT sql. "select * from T" will appear there.

v$sqltext is simply a way to see the entire query. the v$sql and v$sqlarea views only show the first 1000 bytes. newlines and other control characters are replace with whitespace.
v$sqltext_with_newlines is v$sqltext without the whitespace replacment.

v$sql ----------存储的是具体的SQL 和执行计划相关信息，实际上，v$sqlarea 可以看做 v$sql 根据 sqltext 等 做了 group by 之后的信息

v$sqlarea ---------存储的SQL 和一些相关的信息，比如累计的执行次数，逻辑读，物理读等统计信息

而v$SQLAREA 忽略了执行计划 等差异，只是在形式上sql文本看起来一样！相当于做了个聚合，是多个不同执行计划的sql的聚合和累计信息

(refer:http://www.itpub.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=181450&page=1)

v$sql与v$sqlarea的源都是一个：X$KGLCURSOR
实际调优中建议使用v$sql,相对来说比v$sqlarea快，而且还不会产生share pool latch的争用

(refer:http://www.itpub.net/thread-522899-1-1.html)

共同点：
1）都存储了sql内容
2) 记录的都是位于内存中的sql内容
3) 因为是内存，所以都不保留历史记录

不同点：
1)存储的为止不都是相同。其中v$sql和v$sqlarea存储的sql都是位于shared sql area中的sql,而v$sqltext是位于sga中的sql。但文档没有明确说明这里的sga是否还包含了psa(私有sql区域－－共享服务器模式下）。
2)存储sql的方式也不同，v$sql和v$sqlarea都是用一行来存储sql全文，而v$sqltext用一行存储sql的一行。
3)v$sql不存储包含group by 的sql语句。通常这个视图，在每个查询执行完成后更新，但对于执行很久的sql,它是每5秒更新一次，这点对于查看sql执行状态是有意义的。
4)存储的明细不同－－这是最基本的。

最后顺便提一下，v$sqltext_with_newline和v$sqltext是一样，不同的是前者并把换行符和tab替换为空格 ，这样更容易阅读。V$SQLSTATS和V$SQL,v$sqlarea一样都有提供CPU的统计数据.
(Refer:http://lzfhope.blog.163.com/blog/static/63639922008101955913105/)

一些用法:

1.Find top 5 queries with most disk_reads

SELECT SESION.SID,
       SESION.USERNAME,
       OPTIMIZER_MODE,
       HASH_VALUE,
       ADDRESS,
       CPU_TIME,
       ELAPSED_TIME,
       DISK_READS,
       DIRECT_WRITES,
       SQL_TEXT
  FROM V$SQLAREA SQLAREA, V$SESSION SESION
 WHERE SESION.SQL_HASH_VALUE = SQLAREA.HASH_VALUE
   AND SESION.SQL_ADDRESS    = SQLAREA.ADDRESS
   AND SESION.USERNAME IS NOT NULL
   AND ROWNUM < 6 
   ORDER BY DISK_READS DESC,ELAPSED_TIME DESC;

2.See what SQL users are running on the system

select a.sid, a.serial#, b.sql_text
from v$session a, v$sqlarea b
where a.sql_address=b.address
and a.username='GRUMPY';
 
       SID    SERIAL# SQL_TEXT
 
---------- ---------- ----------------------------------------------
       122      61521 select count(*) from gen_person where gen_person_id=95000