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How to Enable AUTOTRACE

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Enable AUTOTRACE

To get full AUTOTRACE feature in your session, you should take the following steps.

  1. Need PLAN_TABLE table to be accessed in user's schema.
  2. If you don't have it, please create PLAN_TABLE table for yourself.

  3. Need PLUSTRACE role to be granted to user.
  4. If you saw error ORA-01919: role 'PLUSTRACE' does not exist, please install PLUSTRACE role first, then grant it to the user like this.

    SQL> show user
    USER is "SYS"
    SQL> grant plustrace to hr;

    Grant succeeded.

Use AUTOTRACE

Here is an example that use AUTOTRACE.

SQL> conn hr/hr@orcl
Connected.
SQL> set autotrace on;
SQL> select count(*) from employees;

  COUNT(*)
----------
       107


Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 3580537945

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation        | Name         | Rows  | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT |              |     1 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  SORT AGGREGATE  |              |     1 |            |          |
|   2 |   INDEX FULL SCAN| EMP_EMAIL_UK |   107 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------


Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
        100  recursive calls
          0  db block gets
        199  consistent gets
          2  physical reads
          0  redo size
        551  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        392  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          2  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          6  sorts (memory)
          0  sorts (disk)
          1  rows processed

As you can see, the result includes both the optimizer execution path and the SQL statement execution statistics.

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