Brandon - I've been making the assumption the dbms_supp package wouldn't give me all the information, but I'll check it out. And you're right - I'll add the tkprof commands as well. thanks .. Robyn On 7/20/05, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've used the dbms_supp package with 8.0.6, 8.1.7 and 9.2 so I know it works > (with BINDs and WAITs) for all those versions at least. A couple other > things to be aware of - you have to run $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmssupp.sql > first to create the package (it's not installed by default), and this script > didn't ship with all versions so sometimes you have to copy it from one > install to another, or ask Oracle Support for it. Also, I would recommend to > end a trace by cleanly logging out the traced process whenever possible > (rather than using stop_trace_in_session) so the STAT lines are written to > the end of the file (assuming you haven't exceeded max_dump_file_size) > because these lines are very useful - they show the explain plan used at > execution time (shown as Row Source Operation in tkprof output), along with > the stats for each step of the explain plan. That's another thing you might > want to cover in your doc - tkprof. > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l