AUTOTRACE
AUTOT[RACE] {ON | OFF | TRACE[ONLY]}  [EXP[LAIN]] [STAT[ISTICS]] 

Causes SQL*Plus to display a report on the execution of successful SQL DML statements.

Keywords

ON

Causes a trace report to be displayed after each execution of a DML statement.

OFF

No trace report is displayed. This option is the default.

TRACEONLY

Causes a trace report to be displayed, but suppresses the printing of query data.

EXPLAIN

Causes SQL*Plus to show the query execution plan for each SQL DML statement that is executed. The EXPLAIN PLAN statement is used to get the execution plan, and your plan table must have a schema for this option to work.

STATISTICS

Causes SQL*Plus to display execution statistics for each executed statement.

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