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Published inFeb 2016
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Saurabh K. Gupta
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Saurabh K. Gupta

Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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Tracing PL/SQL programs using DBMS_TRACE

Tracing program execution is an important exercise in a scrum based database development environment. Sometimes, in a modular programming model, it becomes difficult to track the program execution path. Oracle provides the DBMS_TRACE package to trace PL/SQL program code.

DBMS_TRACE is an Oracle supplied package that can be used to enable and disable tracing in database sessions. The program execution path is traced when you execute a PL/SQL program in a trace-enabled session. The trace information is captured and stored in database tables. These trace tables can be further analyzed to examine the execution path of a PL/SQL program.

The following figure shows the steps involved in PL/SQL code tracing:

Note

PL/SQL code tracing cannot be done in a shared server environment

Installing the DBMS_TRACE package

You can install the DBMS_TRACE package by running the following scripts from the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin folder:

  • dbmspbt.sql: This script creates the DBMS_TRACE...

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Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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