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Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers, and Business Analysts
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Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers, and Business Analysts

by John Adolph Palinski
August 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Trace

A second tool that is often used for performance tuning is the trace facility, which captures statistics about the amount of data and the amount of time spent on actions. Such statistics include the following:

  • CPU time

  • Parse, execute, and fetch counts

  • Elapsed time

  • I/O counts (physical and logical)

  • Number of rows accessed

  • Misses on the library cache

The trace facility is not the easiest tool to use. The basic problem is that the trace statistics are written to a file on the operating system. The file can be hard to locate because it may be on the server on which the Oracle installation resides. It also can contain a lot of information. Statistics are placed into this table for everything Oracle does once the trace facility is turned on. It is ...

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