How to see the actual Oracle SQL statement that is being executed

Question

I\'m using a custom-built inhouse application that generates a standard set of reports on a weekly basis. I have no access to the source code of the application, and everyone te

Answer 1

On the data dictionary side there are a lot of tools you can use to such as Schema Spy

To look at what queries are running look at views sys.v_$sql and sys.v_$sqltext. You will also need access to sys.all_users

One thing to note that queries that use parameters will show up once with entries like

and TABLETYPE=’:b16’

while others that dont will show up multiple times such as:

and TABLETYPE=’MT’

An example of these tables in action is the following SQL to find the top 20 diskread hogs. You could change this by removing the WHERE rownum <= 20 and maybe add ORDER BY module. You often find the module will give you a bog clue as to what software is running the query (eg: "TOAD 9.0.1.8", "JDBC Thin Client", "runcbl@somebox (TNS V1-V3)" etc)

SELECT 
 module, 
 sql_text, 
 username, 
 disk_reads_per_exec, 
 buffer_gets, 
 disk_reads, 
 parse_calls, 
 sorts, 
 executions, 
 rows_processed, 
 hit_ratio, 
 first_load_time, 
 sharable_mem, 
 persistent_mem, 
 runtime_mem, 
 cpu_time, 
 elapsed_time, 
 address, 
 hash_value 
FROM 
  (SELECT
   module, 
   sql_text , 
   u.username , 
   round((s.disk_reads/decode(s.executions,0,1, s.executions)),2)  disk_reads_per_exec, 
   s.disk_reads , 
   s.buffer_gets , 
   s.parse_calls , 
   s.sorts , 
   s.executions , 
   s.rows_processed , 
   100 - round(100 *  s.disk_reads/greatest(s.buffer_gets,1),2) hit_ratio, 
   s.first_load_time , 
   sharable_mem , 
   persistent_mem , 
   runtime_mem, 
   cpu_time, 
   elapsed_time, 
   address, 
   hash_value 
  FROM
   sys.v_$sql s, 
   sys.all_users u 
  WHERE
   s.parsing_user_id=u.user_id 
   and UPPER(u.username) not in ('SYS','SYSTEM') 
  ORDER BY
   4 desc) 
WHERE
 rownum <= 20;

Note that if the query is long .. you will have to query v_$sqltext. This stores the whole query. You will have to look up the ADDRESS and HASH_VALUE and pick up all the pieces. Eg:

SELECT
 *
FROM
 sys.v_$sqltext
WHERE
 address = 'C0000000372B3C28'
 and hash_value = '1272580459'
ORDER BY 
 address, hash_value, command_type, piece
;