Here's what I was looking for. Dion Cho wrote the code and posted it to his blog two and a half years ago. I knew it wasn't that complicated... sheesh. His second example does it with 10 lines of code. http://dioncho.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/another-way-to-use-trace-file/ Little different from my original idea (rather than a LOB or an external table, he prefers a pipelined functions with UTL_FILE) - but it accomplishes the task very elegantly. My developers can easily save query output to a file, which can subsequently be passed into the profiler of their choice. Or they can play with the data in Oracle, as Dion does. :) -Jeremy On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Jeremy Schneider < jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > %s/MR Trace/MR Profiler/g > (sorry, mixed a few things up... momentarily forgot that MR Trace is > separate product from Profiler) > > Thanks Ron - heard similar messages from others as well. Guess I can > suggest adding some new development tools to their arsenal... which of > course will open up lots of new options (of which MR Trace is one). Most > developers here aren't allowed to install new software on their machines, so > it would have to get approved and packaged for corp deployment... would > still be a lot easier and less intrusive if I can come up with a simple > block of code... but I guess it might not be that simple, so maybe we have > to go this direction. > > -J > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ron Crisco <ron.crisco@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jeremy Schneider < >> jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Thanks to everyone for the suggestions... >>> >>> 1. Next time I'll mention that I'm very familiar with and fond of MR's >>> fantastic offerings. :) In fact this is exactly what made me ask the >>> question in the first place... they've really been getting excited about MR >>> Trace here. It's the whole reason I want developers to have their trace >>> files - so they can run it through MR Trace. Unfortunately the development >>> team in this shop uses PL/SQL Developer from Allround Automations ( >>> http://www.allroundautomations.com/plsqldev.html) and the MR Trace >>> plugin is not available for this environment. Seems like a bit of a stretch >>> for me to try to convince their entire development team to change to a new >>> development environment... hence asking about a snippit of code to pull the >>> tracefiles for them. >>> >>> [Any MR folks on the list... do you have a solution for this that you >>> give to MR Trace customers? I did ask around at Hotsos and got no answer... >>> but I probably should have shot an email over to you before I hit the list >>> here!!] >>> >>> >> Our reply is in two parts. First, we would love to work with PL/SQL >> Developer and/or TOAD given the opportunity, but that hasn't worked out >> yet. >> >> Second, there's no reason to change development's favorite IDE. Continue >> to use whatever tool they like for development, and use SQL Developer (which >> is free) for testing the code and using MR Trace. >> >> Ron Crisco >> Method R >> > > > > -- > http://www.ardentperf.com > +1 312-725-9249 > > Jeremy Schneider > Chicago > -- http://www.ardentperf.com +1 312-725-9249 Jeremy Schneider Chicago