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It shows how you can use a logon trigger to automatically trace all sessions for a given user. This can be useful where an application is launched from a desktop but fails before the DBA has had time to identify the SID and SERIAL# to start tracing the session. I tested it in an Oracle 11.1.0.6 database running on Windows 8.
First I created a database user:
SQL> create user ford
2 identified by fiesta
3 /
User created.
SQL> grant create session,
2 create trigger,
3 alter session to ford
4 /
Grant succeeded.
SQL>
Then I logged in as the user and created a trigger:
SQL> conn ford/fiesta
Connected.
SQL> create or replace trigger immediate_trace
2 after logon on ford.schema
3 begin
4 execute immediate 'alter session set sql_trace = true';
5 end;
6 /
Trigger created.
SQL>
I logged in again and ran some SQL:
SQL> conn ford/fiesta
Connected.
SQL> select sysdate from dual
2 /
SYSDATE
---------
03-SEP-16
SQL>
This produced a trace file ready for further analysis e.g. by tkprof. It included, among other statements, the following:
=====================
PARSING IN CURSOR #3 len=66 dep=1 uid=89 oct=47 lid=89 tim=16846197344563 hv=836160175 ad='b719a518' sqlid='21fcha0sxdkpg'
begin
execute immediate 'alter session set sql_trace = true';
end;
END OF STMT
EXEC #3:c=0,e=23597,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=1,r=1,dep=1,og=1,tim=16846197344558
=====================
and
=====================
PARSING IN CURSOR #3 len=24 dep=0 uid=89 oct=3 lid=89 tim=16846207456189 hv=2343063137 ad='b71c8490' sqlid='7h35uxf5uhmm1'
select sysdate from dual
END OF STMT
PARSE #3:c=0,e=307,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=1,r=0,dep=0,og=1,tim=16846207456188
EXEC #3:c=0,e=14,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=0,og=1,tim=16846207456292
FETCH #3:c=0,e=6,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=1,dep=0,og=1,tim=16846207456323
STAT #3 id=1 cnt=1 pid=0 pos=1 obj=0 op='FAST DUAL (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=2 size=0 card=1)'
FETCH #3:c=0,e=2,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=0,og=0,tim=16846207502363
*** 2016-09-03 18:30:07.555
XCTEND rlbk=0, rd_only=1
=====================
Incidentally, if you find a trigger like this and you are not sure what it is for, you can find out as follows:
SQL> conn / as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> l
1 select description
2 from dba_triggers
3 where owner = 'FORD'
4* and trigger_name = 'IMMEDIATE_TRACE'
SQL> /
DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------
immediate_trace
after logon on ford.schema
SQL> l
1 select trigger_body
2 from dba_triggers
3 where owner = 'FORD'
4* and trigger_name = 'IMMEDIATE_TRACE'
SQL> /
TRIGGER_BODY
----------------------------------------------------------
begin
execute immediate 'alter session set sql_trace = true';
end;
SQL>
So far so good but the observant among you may notice that the above is simply a replacement for a couple of posts I published some time ago. You may be wondering what has changed since then. Well, I need to trace sessions for a database user again but this time:
(1) The database produces lots of other trace files which I don't want to look at.
(2) Several OS users log in with this database user but I only want trace files to be produced for one of them, who happens to be called Tobias.
I modified the logon trigger as follows:
SQL> conn ford/fiesta
Connected.
SQL> l
1 create or replace trigger immediate_trace
2 after logon on ford.schema
3 declare
4 osuser varchar2(200);
5 begin
6 select sys_context('USERENV', 'OS_USER')
7 into osuser from dual;
8 if osuser = 'NEWPC\Tobias'
9 then
10 execute immediate
11 'alter session set tracefile_identifier = FORD';
12 execute immediate
13 'alter session set sql_trace = true';
14 end if;
15* end;
SQL> /
Trigger created.
SQL>
Then using my usual OS user i.e. Andrew, I logged into the database user:
SQL> conn ford/fiesta
Connected.
SQL> l
1 select sys_context('USERENV', 'OS_USER')
2* from dual
SQL> /
SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','OS_USER')
--------------------------------------------------
NEWPC\Andrew
SQL> select 'Andrew was here' from dual
2 /
'ANDREWWASHERE'
---------------
Andrew was here
SQL>
This did not create a trace file.
I went to the Windows 8 account creation screen and set up a user called Tobias. This isn't a Microsoft blog so I'm not going to show you how to do that. I connected to Windows with this new OS user and logged into the database with it:
SQL> conn ford/fiesta
Connected.
SQL> l
1 select sys_context('USERENV', 'OS_USER')
2* from dual
SQL> /
SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','OS_USER')
--------------------------------------------------
NEWPC\Tobias
SQL> select 'Tobias was here' from dual
2 /
'TOBIASWASHERE'
---------------
Tobias was here
SQL>
This created a trace file, which I could easily see among the other trace files as it was called:
orcl_ora_2548_FORD
... and when I looked inside it, I could see that it had been created by Tobias, not by Andrew:
=====================
PARSING IN CURSOR #4 len=34 dep=0 uid=89 oct=3 lid=89 tim=16850923590446 hv=3733526637 ad='b2ff1f78' sqlid='80cq653g8k63d'
select 'Tobias was here' from dual
END OF STMT
PARSE #4:c=0,e=343,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=1,r=0,dep=0,og=1,tim=16850923590444
EXEC #4:c=0,e=14,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=0,og=1,tim=16850923590540
FETCH #4:c=0,e=5,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=1,dep=0,og=1,tim=16850923590565
STAT #4 id=1 cnt=1 pid=0 pos=1 obj=0 op='FAST DUAL (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=2 size=0 card=1)'
FETCH #4:c=0,e=0,p=0,cr=0,cu=0,mis=0,r=0,dep=0,og=0,tim=16850923590715
*** 2016-09-03 20:06:37.565
XCTEND rlbk=0, rd_only=1
=====================
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