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How-to trace oracle sessions?

AUGUST 1, 2008 9 COMMENTS

There are lots of methods to trace oracle sessions.

1. alter session set events 10046 trace name context forever,level 12;

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2. Using package DBMS_MONITOR

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4. Using package DBMS_SYSTEM

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6. Using DBMS_SUPPORT exec DBMS_SUPPORT.START_TRACE_IN_SESSION(&SID,

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waits=>true, binds=>true ); exec DBMS_SUPPORT.STOP_TRACE_IN_SESSION( &SID , null ); NOTE: need to install before use
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SQL> connect / AS SYSDBA SQL> @?\rdbms\admin\dbmssupp.sql SQL> GRANT execute ON dbms_support TO schema_owner; SQL> CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM dbms_support FOR dbms_support;

7. Using trcsess trcsess [output=output_file_name] [session=session_id] [clientid=client_id] [service=service_name] [action=action_name] [module=module_name] [trace_files]

Trace a module: trcsess service=vasont.world module=VasontU.exe trc.log

8. Tracing whole system

alter system set events '10046 trace name context forever,level 12'; or event="10046 trace name context forever,level 12"

Stop system wider trace:

alter system set events '10046 trace name context off';

9. Using trigger to start traces

There may be some situations where it is necessary to trace

the activity of a specific user. In this case a logon trigger

could be used. An example is provided below:

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER SYS.set_trace AFTER LOGON ON DATABASE WHEN (USER like '&USERNAME') DECLARE lcommand varchar(200); BEGIN EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'alter session set statistics_level=ALL'; EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'alter session set max_dump_file_size=UNLIMITED'; EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'alter session set events ''10046 trace

name context forever, level 12''';

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END set_trace; /

Last step, after trace processing, using tkprof

tkprof vasont_ora_22103.trc vasont_ora_22103.trc.log sys=no

waits=yes sort=(prscnt, execnt)

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9 Responses to How-to trace oracle sessions?

Pirsey says:
April 22, 2009 at 6:47 am

Hey, cool tips. Perhaps Ill buy a glass of beer to the man from that forum who told me to visit your site
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neworacledba says:
February 26, 2010 at 10:10 pm

this is a great post and most needed for daily operational task
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alan says:
March 11, 2010 at 5:14 pm

Nice reference. Thank you.

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jack Nicholson says:

June 19, 2010 at 7:22 am

Good effort to provide such wonderful tip of session tracing enable in all versions of Oracle. Great work. Keep it up.
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Alex says:
July 28, 2010 at 8:58 am

Another good summary about trace sql, http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/SQLTrace10046TrcsessAndTkprof10g.php

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Alex says:
November 16, 2011 at 8:50 am

I agree with aforesaid, this is short, comprehensive and, what is most important, easy for reading and understanding.
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Alex Zeng says:

December 15, 2011 at 3:16 am

Thanks. -Alex
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joseph says:
March 7, 2012 at 3:06 pm

Thanks Tinku head

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B Beberman says:
November 14, 2012 at 6:44 pm

Tukuchi, Thanks very much for you tip

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