Re: A brief doc on 10046 tracing

  • From: Robyn <robyn.sands@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:33:40 -0400

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.
> 
>
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