Using a trigger to turn on tracing

  • From: "Schauss, Peter" <peter.schauss@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "Oracle-L (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:36:41 -0800

I am trying to use a trigger to turn on tracing for a specified user.
I copied the example from Cary Millsap's _Optimizing Oracle Performance_.

The text of the trigger is:

create or replace trigger trace_user after logon on database
begin
         if user = 'TEST' then
                execute immediate 'alter session set timed_statistics =
true';
                execute immediate 'alter session set max_dump_file_size =
unlimited';
                execute immediate 
                                'alter session set events ''10046 trace name
context forever, level 8''';
         end if;
end;
/

When I try to log on as user TEST, I get:

ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
ORA-06512: at line 5

What privilege does TEST need here?

Thanks,
Peter Schauss
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