RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-06 Thread Boris Dali
it still might be session switching of a kind. What we use here is an n-tier proxy authentication and I suspect these waits is the price we pay for it. Not sure, but maybe if proxy attributes are switched sql trace doesn't capture this properly, forgeting to emit new session info? I would be interested

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
you may not be seeing parse etc entries for cursor #0 merely because maybe by design, cursor#0 gets invoked before trace gets activated. This way, you will never get cursor #0 info. You can tell, I am guessing but to get similar experience, start trace in an already active session and you'll

Re: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-06 Thread Tanel Poder
2) since waits #0 appear only before the calls to a stored code - I don't know if they deliberatly switch sessions in the code that runs on the app server and run the stored code as the schema owner (similar to switching current schema as an alternative to using synonyms) or it is a feature

Re: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-06 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks, Tanel. I did checked v$session_connect info, but it doesn't tell me much, except authentication_type='PROXY' which is less than useful as it doesn't tell to whom. v$session.client_identifier is empty. Thanks, Boris Dali. Check V$SESSION_CONNECT_INFO view. CLIENT_IDENTIFIER in

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-06 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks, Raj, but I don't think so. The whole reason behind enabling a db-wide trace was to capture everything sql trace is instrumented to capture. As you know sql_trace is a static parameter, so I got everything from the begining, including: PARSING IN CURSOR #1 ALTER DATABASE MOUNT

Re: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-06 Thread Daniel W. Fink
in the middle of any trace file, only in the header, but I think it still might be session switching of a kind. What we use here is an n-tier proxy authentication and I suspect these waits is the price we pay for it. Not sure, but maybe if proxy attributes are switched sql trace doesn't capture

Re: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-06 Thread Tanel Poder
don't think so. The whole reason behind enabling a db-wide trace was to capture everything sql trace is instrumented to capture. As you know sql_trace is a static parameter, so I got everything from the begining, including: PARSING IN CURSOR #1 ALTER DATABASE MOUNT .. PARSING IN CURSOR #1

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks, Cary. Could you elaborate what do you mean by wait events associated with COMMIT processing? Why does Oracle need this exchange of messages with the client (well, with the app server really in my case of a 3-tier deployment) to perform a commit? In any event, as I described earlier in

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Cary Millsap
In-line... Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Performance Diagnosis 101: 1/27 Atlanta - SQL Optimization 101: 2/16 Dallas - Hotsos Symposium 2004: March 7-10 Dallas - Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule details... -Original Message- Boris Dali

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Anjo Kolk
Cursor 0 also happens in oracle due to session switching (multiple sessions in the same process), oracle apps uses that but it also could happen with certain other application servers (haven't investigated it). Anjo. -Original Message- Boris Dali Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:59 PM

Re: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Tanel Poder
Oracle Portal uses session switching as well (and Apps 11i uses Portal...) Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:49 PM Cursor 0 also happens in oracle due to session switching (multiple sessions in

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Boris Dali
if session gets switched, wouldn't this terminate sql trace for the session (in my case it doesn't)? Thanks, Boris Dali. --- Anjo Kolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cursor 0 also happens in oracle due to session switching (multiple sessions in the same process), oracle apps uses

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Anjo Kolk
that you perform. SQL trace is inherited by the process it you set in a session, so other sessions that run in the same process will produce also trace output. Anjo. -Original Message- Boris Dali Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks, Anjo

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Anjo Kolk
I actually build a testcase for this and it still failed on 9.2 without any patches. It is supposed to be fixed in some later patch. I don't have the patches -Original Message- Anjo Kolk Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cursor 0 also

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Boris Dali
Anjo, I suppose your test-case involved more than just use of sqlplus. Probably some middle tier with connection/session pooling of some sort? --- Anjo Kolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually build a testcase for this and it still failed on 9.2 without any patches. It is supposed to be

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Boris Dali
Right, but the new session (that inherits the sql trace attribute) - wouldn't it produce a **separate** trace file? In my case there's only one trace file with sid.serial# clearly stated at the begining of the trace file and WAIT #0 scattered all over the trace. ..Or am I missing something

Re: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Tanel Poder
: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:49 PM Right, but the new session (that inherits the sql trace attribute) - wouldn't it produce a **separate** trace file? In my case there's only one trace file with sid.serial# clearly stated at the begining of the trace file and WAIT #0 scattered all over the t

Re: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Boris Dali
process, the contents will be written into one single file. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:49 PM Right, but the new session (that inherits the sql trace attribute) - wouldn't it produce

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-05 Thread Anjo Kolk
They write all to the same trace file. So there should be different sid.serial# combinations. -Original Message- Boris Dali Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Right, but the new session (that inherits the sql trace attribute) - wouldn't

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-01 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks a lot for your reply, Cary. One follow-up question. What would motivate a chat of sometimes 5, sometimes 10-20 'SQL*Net message to/from client' consecutive wait lines emitted to the trace file in the following manner: WAIT #0: nam='SQL*Net message to client' ela= 2 p1=1413697536 p2=1 p3=0

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2004-01-01 Thread Cary Millsap
Boris, Cursor #0 seems reserved for two special uses: (1) wait events associated with COMMIT processing (also, of course, ROLLBACK and SAVEPOINT), and (2) wait events associated with dbcalls not instrumented because of bug 2425312. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com

RE: sql trace - forward attribution

2003-12-31 Thread Cary Millsap
WAIT #31: nam='SQL*Net message to client' ela= 1 p1=1413697536 p2=1 p3=0 WAIT #31: nam='SQL*Net message from client' ela= 692 p1=1413697536 p2=1 p3=0 WAIT #31: nam='SQL*Net message to client' ela= 1 p1=1413697536 p2=1 p3=0 FETCH

sql trace - forward attribution

2003-12-29 Thread Boris Dali
I don't have the book with me right now, but I am obviously missing something in the forward attribution concept as it doesn't seem to help me in explanation of the following lines: WAIT #31: nam='SQL*Net message to client' ela= 1 p1=1413697536 p2=1 p3=0 WAIT #31: nam='SQL*Net message from

RE: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-27 Thread Cary Millsap
Boris, thanks for sending me your data. The following note pertains only to the excerpt you sent me; I didn't look at the whole trace file. Here's the excerpt you sent: excerpt = PARSING IN CURSOR #1 len=94 dep=0 uid=83 oct=47 lid=83 tim=1614119418158 hv=1138148843

RE: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-27 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks a lot, Cary. Indeed the indented notation seems rather convenient. I would be delighted to take your PD101 course, just not sure if people here dealing with the training budget would share the delight with me :-( Doesn't hurt to ask though... Thanks again, Boris Dali.

RE: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
24, 2003 8:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Reading Cary's Optimizing Oracle Performance, page 91 it says: A database call with dep=n+1 is the recursive child of the first SUBSEQUENT (empasis mine) dep=n database call listed in the SQL trace data stream Does this apply to the SQL

RE: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Sorry about the last empty email ... Cary is right, the EXEC at dep=0 is the database call you should be looking for, why? because until #1 is parsed, db has no way of finding what needs to do. And once it finds that Oh I must run a SQL, the dep increases. So, I'd look for a subsequent EXEC

Re: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-26 Thread Daniel Fink
But the previous email was a shining example of brevity in action! ;) I'll have to wait for Cary, et.al. as well as my understanding is the exact same as yours. Daniel Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: Sorry about the last empty email ... Cary is right, the EXEC at dep=0 is the database call you

RE: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-26 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks, Raj. So yes, as I said in my other email - the rule stated in the book seem to apply to EXEC db calls only (in case of SQL fired from PL/SQL). I guess I misinterpreted it the way that it applies to ALL db calls for recursive cursors. Thanks, Boris Dali. --- Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-26 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks, Jared. Yes, running select vs select+rollback in a loop of 1000 iterations I got similar results (average over 3 runs): STAT...user rollbacks 0 1,000 1,000 LATCH...enqueues 570 1,574 1,004 LATCH...shared pool7,434 9,063 1,629 STAT...recursive 7,754 10,264

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-25 Thread Jared Still
not an OCI programmer, I just pulled this straight from The Fine Manual. Jared On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:54, Boris Dali wrote: I've got a third party package that connects to Oracle via OCI and works in HTTP-like (stateless) fashion. Reviewing raw SQL trace output I don't see a single

Re: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-25 Thread Daniel Fink
: Reading Cary's Optimizing Oracle Performance, page 91 it says: A database call with dep=n+1 is the recursive child of the first SUBSEQUENT (empasis mine) dep=n database call listed in the SQL trace data stream Does this apply to the SQL issued from PL/SQL? I am looking at the simple

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-25 Thread Tanel Poder
. Reviewing raw SQL trace output I don't see a single commit or rollback there, but there are plenty of XCTEND tx markers with rlbk=1 (after about every SELECT statement). Is this normal? Does this mean that this app rollbacks (implicitly?) after each of those selects? Thanks

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-25 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks, Jared, Tanel. I was a little supprised to see a combination rlbk=1,rd_only=1. Why read-only bit is set here if it rolls back anyway? So I thought may be they mark their tx explicitly as read-only (aka set transaction read-only). Reveiwing OCI fine manual there seemed to be an option of

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-25 Thread Jared Still
Using a slightly modified version of run_stats to return timings in 1/1 of a second, the timing of 1000 iterations of a loop executing noop vs. 1000 doing rollback: .0005 secs .0354 secs Here are the stats that were different between the two, kind of what you would expect: LATCH.cache

Re: sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-25 Thread Boris Dali
attempt an explanation inline. Daniel Fink Boris Dali wrote: Reading Cary's Optimizing Oracle Performance, page 91 it says: A database call with dep=n+1 is the recursive child of the first SUBSEQUENT (empasis mine) dep=n database call listed in the SQL trace data stream Does

sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-24 Thread Boris Dali
I've got a third party package that connects to Oracle via OCI and works in HTTP-like (stateless) fashion. Reviewing raw SQL trace output I don't see a single commit or rollback there, but there are plenty of XCTEND tx markers with rlbk=1 (after about every SELECT statement). Is this normal? Does

sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-24 Thread Boris Dali
Reading Cary's Optimizing Oracle Performance, page 91 it says: A database call with dep=n+1 is the recursive child of the first SUBSEQUENT (empasis mine) dep=n database call listed in the SQL trace data stream Does this apply to the SQL issued from PL/SQL? I am looking at the simple packaged

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Gram
party package that connects to Oracle via OCI and works in HTTP-like (stateless) fashion. Reviewing raw SQL trace output I don't see a single commit or rollback there, but there are plenty of XCTEND tx markers with rlbk=1 (after about every SELECT statement). Is this normal? Does this mean

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
package that connects to Oracle via OCI and works in HTTP-like (stateless) fashion. Reviewing raw SQL trace output I don't see a single commit or rollback there, but there are plenty of XCTEND tx markers with rlbk=1 (after about every SELECT statement). Is this normal? Does this mean that this app

sql trace tuning articles

2003-09-21 Thread Ryan
did a google search and couldnt find anything worth reading. other than the ones on hotsos any other good ones? namely ones on traces other than 10053 and 10046? Ive seen a few others mentioned but no details.

Re: sql trace tuning articles

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Stroupe
Did you check out www.hotsos.com? Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt have a few (as well as a great book Optimizing Oracle Performance) Thanks/Richard --- Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did a google search and couldnt find anything worth reading. other than the ones on hotsos any other good ones?

Re: SQL Trace

2002-11-20 Thread Anjo Kolk
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 22:03, you wrote: Qs What is the Cause in particular (or in General) of Time Difference between cpu elapsed Columns in the following Query ? e = c + wait time (of anykind) (+ rounding errors) Qs Is there Any Scope for improvement in the following Query ? There

SQL Trace

2002-11-19 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Title: Message Qs What is the Cause in particular (or in General) of Time Difference between "cpu" "elapsed" Columns in the following Query ? Qs Isthere Any Scope for improvement in the following Query ? Qs Is there any Best practise of working with Such Tables ? NOTE - 1) (tran_date

Re: phyrds in v$filestat and sql trace not match !!

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
My guess will be that PHYRDS is the count of start i/o's. Each start i/o read mutilblock_read_count blocks from the disk. The data buffer that you read with each start i/o is the same: 8 blocks of 8k or 16 blocks of 4k. So you get the same number of start i/o's. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original

phyrds in v$filestat and sql trace not match !!

2002-11-12 Thread Rahul
list, i'm doing benchmarking using two DB's with different block size i run a count(*) on a 17 million row table, and compare the sql_trace file and the v$filestat stats.. the db was bounced before each test, the init.ora params were identical, EXCEPT in DB1 (4k block size) the muldiblock read

set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread Baker, Barbara
List: We have a crystal report performing badly. (No! ,you say. You're shocked!) The report has a visual basic front end. Our developer wants to set sql trace in the VB code. It's not working. When I tkprof her trace file, all that's in there is the ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE TRUE command

Re:set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread dgoulet
wants to set sql trace in the VB code. It's not working. When I tkprof her trace file, all that's in there is the ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE TRUE command. Is there some trick here? I don't know VB at all, so I don't know how to advise her. She looked on the Microsoft site, but it was not helpful

RE: set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: set sql*trace VB/Crystal I don't know vb either. However the trace file is likely generated on the server-side. She would not see the output. She might want to try alter session set autotrace on; instead. That way she should see the results. That is how it works in SQL*PLUS

RE: set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: set sql*trace VB/Crystal If you want to see the trace do the following connected to the appropriate database: SQL show parameters dump; NAME TYPE VALUE --- -- background_core_dump string partial

Re: set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread paquette stephane
say. You're shocked!) The report has a visual basic front end. Our developer wants to set sql trace in the VB code. It's not working. When I tkprof her trace file, all that's in there is the ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE TRUE command. Is there some trick here? I don't know VB at all, so

RE: set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread Jay Wade
What connection are they using? If they are using Oracle Object Of OLE I think there is a parameter that can be set. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: set sql*trace VB/Crystal Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:08

Re: set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread Babu . Nagarajan
] To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: List: We have a crystal report performing badly. (No! ,you say. You're shocked!) The report has a visual basic front end. Our developer wants to set sql trace in the VB code. It's not working. When I tkprof her trace file, all that's

RE: set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread Cary Millsap
a crystal report performing badly. (No! ,you say. You're shocked!) The report has a visual basic front end. Our developer wants to set sql trace in the VB code. It's not working. When I tkprof her trace file, all that's in there is the ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE TRUE command. Is there some trick

Ynt: SQL Trace ( Perl script help needed)

2001-06-19 Thread unal-bilisim
hello Siva, You can concatenate raw SQL_TRACE files as a single file, then upload this file to itrprof. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 2:30 AM Hello Gurus, I was trying to pull distinct sql's and their

SQL Trace ( Perl script help needed)

2001-06-18 Thread Valiveru, Siva
Hello Gurus, I was trying to pull distinct sql's and their total execute count from a bunch of 250 trace output files(output from tkprof trace files). How can I achive this. What i need the cumulative sum of execute count from different files for each sql's. As u all know sql can extend more

SQL TRACE

2001-05-31 Thread Arslan Bahar
i have take trace file with SYS.DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_SQL_TRACE_IN_SESSION(sid,serial,TRUE). and trace file size is the 5MB but outpu of tkproff 31KB . is it normal.? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Arslan Bahar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

RE: SQL TRACE

2001-05-31 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal
PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 ìàÿ 2001 ã. 13:06 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: SQL TRACE i have take trace file with SYS.DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_SQL_TRACE_IN_SESSION(sid,serial,TRUE). and trace file size is the 5MB but outpu of tkproff 31KB

CPU/Parse Time Reported by SQL Trace

2001-04-25 Thread Jay Mehta
While working on application performance issues, I noticed significant discrepancy in time reported by SQL Trace and actual time taken by the application. Total Elapsed time reported by SQL Trace was 180 seconds, but it took 500 seconds to run it. (It was a PL/SQL procedure. I just measured