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May 2010

Xtrace: an Oracle session trace browser – exec flow

Tracing a session is extremely useful when you need to investigate how a client interacts with the database – the client could be an application of yours, a third-party application, or an Oracle module such as dbms_stats or dbms_mview. To get the perfect picture of the client-server dialogue, you “simply” need to consider all EXEC lines in the trace file, and associate to each line the executed statement and the bind variable values; a very tedious and error-prone task when done manually, that Xtrace can make for you (and for free).…

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