CHAPTER 10

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Tracing SQL Execution

Tracing session activity is at the heart of most SQL performance tuning exercises. Oracle provides a rich set of tools to trace SQL activity. This chapter introduces the Oracle SQL trace facility and shows you how to set up SQL tracing in your environment. Oracle provides numerous “events” that help you perform various types of traces.

Although there are several tracing methods available, Oracle now recommends that you use the DBMS_MONITOR package for most types of tracing. The chapter contains several recipes that explain how to use this package to generate traces. In addition, we show how to trace sessions by ...

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