RE: Millisecond timer in PL/SQL

Thomas,

Unfortunatetly this only goes to 100th's of a second (same result as SELECT 
HSECS FROM V$TIMER). I'm after milliseconds.

Thanks,
Scott.

Quoting "Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)" <Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Scott,
> 
> How about:
> 
> select dbms_utility.get_time from dual?
> 
> 
> 
>   function get_time return number;
>   --  Find out the current time in 100th's of a second.
>   --  Output argukments:
>   --    get_time
>   --      The time is the number of 100th's of a second from some
>   --      arbitrary epoch.
> 
> 
> 
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> Subject: Millisecond timer in PL/SQL
> 
> All,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to measure the elapsed time (in milliseconds) of 
> executing a bunch of functions within a PL/SQL package.  I've written a
> "timer" 
> function that records this by using SYSTIMESTAMP, however is causes the 
> sessions to spend a significant amount of time waiting on "cache buffers
> 
> chains".
> 
> Coding "w_date := SYSTIMESTAMP;" will result in a recursive "SELECT 
> SYSTIMESTAMP FROM DUAL", and this is the sql being executed by sessions
> waiting 
> on this latch (from v$session_wait and v$sqlarea).
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions for ways that I can improve this?
> 
> I have 50 concurrent sessions (batch jobs) running this, and each will
> call 
> the "timer" function about 60 times per second.  Originally I used
> V$TIMER, 
> however the HSECS from this was not granular enough.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott Hutchinson
> Interact Analysis Ltd
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