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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preparing for a Trace

Before you can use TKPROF, you must collect information about SQL statements into a trace file. To use the SQL Trace utility, you must have the following settings in the initialization file for the target Oracle database:

  • TIMED_STATISTICS must be set to TRUE. For Oracle9i Release 2, setting the STATISTICS_LEVEL parameter to TYPICAL or ALL will also collect timing statistics, and the value of DB_CACHE_ADVICE.TIMED_STATISTICS or TIMED_OS_STATISTICS will override the value set for STATISTICS_LEVEL.

  • MAX_DUMP_FILE_SIZE must be big enough to hold all the information written to the trace file.

  • USER_DUMP_DEST must point to a valid directory.

Tip

The SQL Trace utility writes all trace files to the USER_DUMP_DEST directory, so make sure you have a way to recognize your particular trace file.

All of these parameters are session parameters and can be changed dynamically with Oracle9i.

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