Still, if they gave you the means to flush the pools at any time you like, giving you some means of starting a trace should not require an act of congress. On 2011-02-07, at 11:18 AM, Michael Moore wrote: > I don't really have ALTER SYSTEM. The DBAs created a procedure with > alter system flush shared_pool; > alter system flush buffer_cache; > > and then gave me execute on that procedure. Believe me, if it was easy, I > would have done it. ;-) lol. > > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > If you have the privilege to execute "alter system ... " commands, the > privilege to start a trace should be child's play. >