Introduce TVD$XTAT
Trivadis Extended Tracefile Analysis Tool (TVD$XTAT) is a command-line tool. Like TKPROF, its main purpose is to take a raw SQL trace file as input and generate a formatted file as output. Why Is...
View ArticleAnalyzing a SQL Trace File with SQL Statements
As of Oracle Database 11g the DBMS_SQLTUNE package provides the SELECT_SQL_TRACE function. Its purpose is to load the content of a SQL trace file into a SQL tuning set. But, as it often happens, a...
View ArticleTKPROF New Features in 11gR2 – Release 11.2.0.1
While writing a post about the TKPROF new features in 11.2.0.2 I noticed that I didn’t write one about an important change introduced in 11.2.0.1. So, before finishing the other one, let’s have a look...
View ArticleTKPROF New Features in 11gR2 – 11.2.0.2
The release 11.2.0.2 not only provides a lot of documented new features, but also provides undocumented ones. Today, I would like to spend few words about the undocumented changes introduced in the...
View ArticleTKPROF’s Argument PDBTRACE
If you run TKPROF without arguments, you get a complete list of its arguments with a short description for each of them (here the output generated by version 18.1.0): $ tkprof Usage: tkprof tracefile...
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