Tkprof in client

Question

This is what i do in my server to see the tkprof
-- setting user_dump_dest
alter system set user_dump_dest="/home/oracle/trace";
alter session set tracefile_identifier ="trace1";
ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE = TRUE;
tkprof /home/oracle/trace/ora_16095_trace1.trc /home/oracle/trace/out.prf explain=scott/tiger SYS=NO
How can i do this same in my client .where i wont be having any idea about the server folders
need help on this or any articles

Answer 1

Hi
I need an user trace whenever he connects or whatever he does either by hitting
database through an application or running it using sqlplus.At page 69 of TOP I wrote the following...
The simplest approach is to create a logon trigger at the database level. To avoid enabling
SQL trace for all users, I usually suggest creating a role (named sql_trace in the following
example) and temporarily granting it only to the user utilized for the test. Naturally, it is also
possible to define the trigger for a single schema or perform other checks based, for example,
on the userenv context. Note that in addition to enabling SQL trace, it is good practice to set the
other parameters related to SQL trace as well (more about them later in this chapter).
CREATE ROLE sql_trace;
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER enable_sql_trace AFTER LOGON ON DATABASE
BEGIN
  IF (dbms_session.is_role_enabled('SQL_TRACE'))
  THEN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER SESSION SET timed_statistics = TRUE';
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER SESSION SET max_dump_file_size = unlimited';
   dbms_monitor.session_trace_enable;
  END IF;
END;
/HTH
Chris Antognini
Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Apress 2008
http://top.antognini.ch