Profile Option: Initialization SQL Statement Custom

Oracle Applications 11i provides a profile option that allows to execute custom code at the beginning of every database session. These sessions can be linked to an online Form, a Concurrent Program, or any other piece of code that requires accessing the database. The most common use of this profile option is to generate detailed raw SQL Trace files including the values of the bind variables used by SQL statements. This profile is also used to report on raw SQL Trace, all database waits, used to determine gaps between elapsed and CPU times. Values of bind variables are necessary when a bad performing SQL is found on TKPROF, and the Explain Plan shows only zeros on its Rows column. The display of the number of rows in the explain plan from TKPROF, is needed in order to narrow the area in which the SQL statement is retrieving a large volume of data. For both, values of bind variables and database waits, an RDBMS Event is used (Event 10046). This document describes how to set the profile option Initialization SQL Statement Custom for one USER, in order to generate detailed raw SQL Traces to troubleshoot Apps Performance issues. Use this profile wisely. 1. Verify that profile option Initialization SQL Statement Custom is accessible to users and programs. Login with a USER that has access to the Application Developer Responsibility. Navigate to Profiles Form (choose Profile option on menu for Application Developer responsibility). Query profile FND_INIT_SQL. User and Program Access check boxes should be checked, as well as System Administrator Access Visible and Updateable, at the User level as shown on screen shot below.

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2. Switch Responsibility to System Administrator and create a new USER. Suggested name is TRACE. Assign to this new user TRACE the Responsibility that contains the transaction (Form or Concurrent Program) that you wish to trace with Event 10046.

3. Using System Administrator Responsibility, navigate to System Profile Values Form (Profile System from Navigator). Query profile option Initialization SQL Statement Custom for user TRACE and update the value with string below:

BEGIN FND_CTL.FND_SESS_CTL ('','','TRUE','TRUE','LOG', 'ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS=''10046 TRACE NAME CONTEXT FOREVER, LEVEL 12'''); END;

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4. Use the Logon as a Different User menu option to login with user TRACE. As soon as you login with user TRACE, all database sessions opened with this user TRACE will generate one raw SQL Trace with detailed information produced by Event 10046. As soon as you are done with your transaction, logoff from user TRACE and recover all raw SQL Trace files produced. Do not use user TRACE for anything else but tracing with this profile. Notes: 1. All quotes used on FND_CTL.FND_SESS_CTL are single quotes. Where it looks like double quotes it is actually two single quotes. After LEVEL 12 it has 3 single quotes. Exact syntax is very important. 2. Set this profile ONLY at the USER level. Do not set to your own USER. Create always a dedicated USER. 3. When using this profile, DO NOT turn trace on the menu, as doing so would actually turn off Event 10046. Turning Event 10046 to any level, turns trace automatically. 4. Event 10046 level 1 is regular trace, level 4 is tracing with bind variables, level 8 is with database waits and level 12 with both, bind variables and database waits.

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