Re: How to learn of set (but forgotten) session tracing?

  • From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:02:42 +0200


Branimir Petrovic wrote:

>Hypothetical situation:
>
>DBA sets session tracing to ON then starts (very) long running 
>heavy-duty batch job but "forgets" about it, say - goes home... 
>
>Other DBA takes over to see long job running even longer.
>
>Tracing may be set via:
>
>       - dbms_system.set_sql_trace_in_session
>                       or even via
>       - alter session set events '10046....
>
>Disregarding the fact that tracing of long running jobs will create
>then continiously grow the trace file (which will be sure sign of
>tracing in progress), is there a way to query Oracle and learn of 
>the fact that tracing is set for some or all of existing sessions?
>
>Branimir 
>  
>
Branimir,


Oracle 9.x contains an X$ table named X$TRACE_EVENTS, that might be 
something worth a glance.

HTH

Stephane Faroult

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