I have to admit, when processing trace files, I've rarely found the need to go much more sophisticated then (in pseudo-code) 10046 level 8 | tkprof | grep ^total | sort | head -3 Don't get me wrong - I've been really impressed with the hotsos profiler, orasrp and the like, but it ain't normally that hard to find the worst piece of code in a system :-) On 4/28/05, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mladen >=20 > >>The profiler is written in Java >=20 > I wrote my profiler in Java as well... >=20 > >Can you, please, rewrite it in perl? Java sucks big time. >=20 > Sorry, but only a DBA could think to write a real application with Perl. = =3D > I have nothing against Perl, on the contrary I like it to replace shell = =3D > scripts, but every language has its own strength and weakness.=3D20 >=20 > Eventually, from a development point of view, Java is not the best =3D > choice as well, but it's far better than Perl. >=20 > Just my two cents, > Chris > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l