14.4. User Trace Files

User trace files, as the name implies, contain information pertaining to any error conditions triggered by a command in an individual user's session. User trace files can also help the DBA to optimize the performance of SQL statements by producing statistics for each SQL statement in a user session. The location for user trace files is specified by the system parameter USER_DUMP_DEST.

user trace file

A text file that contains information pertaining to any error conditions triggered by a command in an individual user's session or SQL statement information for the purposes of tuning and optimization. User trace files are stored in the directory specified by the system parameter USER_DUMP_ DEST.

14.4.1. Enabling Tracing ...

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