AWR Difference Reports are very helpful when overall performance information about two different periods needs to be compared. However, if the requirement is to review the trends of performance of a specific query, average length of a particular wait event, or different of a specific statistic over time with a purpose of identification of peaks, the AWR Difference Reports are of little help. This presentation will concentrate on techniques of extracting information from the Automatic Workload Repository to analyze how things change over time, which is useful for both - forecasting and identification of specific time periods when issues affect specific areas of the database.