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    PL/SQL timers and where things are kept...

    Hi all,

    I'm a newbie Oracle guy and I have a few questions...apologies if this is in the wrong forum

    - I'm trying to write some benchmarking software in PL/SQL and want to calculate the time a query takes in milliseconds. Is there some sort of timer function in PL/SQL that would do this? Something like =Millisecs() or suchlike? I need two millisecond calculations and work out the time by subtracting one from the other.

    - In which tables are the following things stored and how can I get info on the details of each? Roles, Privileges, PL/SQL created Types, Procedures and Triggers. Also, how would I alter these things via SQL?

    Thank you for any info on the above....sorry its such a lot of questions, but I'm very new at this....I'm really just a VB programmer, not a database guy (yet).

    Cheers,

    Jon.

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    - timer: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/help/oracle...ti.htm#1002103

    - data dictionary: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/help/oracle...90/ch2.htm#745
    You don't modify this directly - it is the result of "grant" commands etc . . . you will need to spend a long time reading a good book.

    Good luck!

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    Check out the Oracle supplied dbms_utility package's get_time procedure. It gives times in hundredths of a second.

    Here's an example:

    sys@AMSAA> declare
    2
    3 l_start number;
    4 l_end number;
    5 l_dummy number;
    6
    7 begin
    8
    9 l_start := dbms_utility.get_time;
    10
    11
    12 select count(*)
    13 into l_dummy
    14 from user_objects;
    15
    16 l_end := dbms_utility.get_time;
    17
    18
    19 dbms_output.put_line('Time to run: ' ||
    to_char(l_end - l_start) );
    20
    21 end;
    22
    23 /
    Time to run: 5

    PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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