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The main use of enabling trace for a

concurrent program comes during
performance tuning.
By examining a trace file, we come to

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know which query/queries is/are taking

the longest
time to execute, there by letting us to
concentrate on tuning them in order to
improve the

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The following is an illustration of how to

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Check the Enable

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Oracle Reports

Trace Check box.

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After that go to

Payables

that particular

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run the

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Check that the

Concurrent Program
has been completed
successfully.

The trace file by

default is post fixed
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with oracle
Process_id which
helps us to identify
which trace file
belongs to which
concurrent request.
The below SQL
Query returns the
process_id of the
concurrent request:

Select oracle_process_id from

fnd_concurrent_requests where
request_id=2768335
(This query displays Process Id)

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The path to the

trace file can be
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found by using the

below query:

SELECT * FROM V$PARAMETER WHERE

NAME=user_dump_dest
(This Query displays the path of trace
file)

The Trace File

generated will not be
in the readable
format. We have to
use TKPROF utility to
convert the file into
a readable format.

Run the below tkprof

command at the
command prompt.
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TKPROF < Trace File_Name.trc>

<Output_File_Name.out> SORT=fchela

A readable file will be generated from the

original trace file which can be further
analyzed to improve the performance.
This file has the information about the
parsing, execution and fetch times of
various queries used in the program.

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Posted by admin at 10:57 am
Tagged with: tkprof, trace

2 Responses to Trace File

1.

Mahesh says:
October 13, 2011 at 2:45 pm
I tried the same approach,but in my
case the process id is getting as
null.Please help me what i am doing
wrong

2.

Shiva says:
May 31, 2011 at 11:15 am
Thank you, it is great

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