Hm... I could definitely see some perks to using an external table. It would be a lot easier to export this to a file on their own machine... simpler all-around... Only additional wrinkle is that this is not just one tracefile, but lots and lots of tracefiles. Anytime they enable 10046 on a session, I want them to get their tracefile. A block of code that dynamically creates a bunch of external tables would do it, one for each trace file... but we have a lot of files and I'd rather not create so many objects. Maybe if there was just one external table, and I had a block of code that just redefined that external table to point to whichever trace file they need... the many developers here would just have to coordinate. Or perhaps I could make it like DBMS_STATS where they can point it to any table, create one in their own schema that they just re-use, like the PLAN_TABLE. But to my original question, I guess nobody already has this block of code already written? Suppose I'll have to actually go and write it? Oh well. :) -Jeremy On 8/16/2011 6:08 PM, Tim Gorman wrote: > Jeremy, > > Given all the complexities involving LOBs in general, why not load the > tracefile line-by-line into a table with each line is a row, thus > using a VARCHAR2 column for the text of the line? Easier to load, > easier to manage, easier to index, easier to retrieve? > > Just my $0.02? > > -Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Jeremy Schneider [mailto:jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:39 PM > *To:* Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* code to load tracefile into CLOB? > > Just wondering... does anyone out there have a snippit of code > that will load a 10046 trace file from bdump or udump into a LOB? > Just looking for a quick and dirty way to give some developers > access to tracefiles (without requiring unix logins). Didn't see > any code samples with a quick google search, so I'm about to code > it myself - just thought I'd ask first. -Jeremy -- > http://www.ardentperf.com +1 312-725-9249 Jeremy Schneider Chicago > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- http://www.ardentperf.com +1 312-725-9249 Jeremy Schneider Chicago