Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA

Hi Guys,

Today while doing an analysis for a very complex & a big SQL query (402 lines), I tried to use the Real Time SQL Monitoring Report to get some quick stats about the execution, but it failed and it didn’t showed me any output.

Luckily I found a great article written by my friend Mohamed Houri and a metalink note for the problem (Doc ID 1613163.1), which says that there is a default limitation (300 lines) on the plan lines, and the threshold is in place to avoid spending too much time processing these large statements at the expense of other activities. So anything that has more than 300 plan lines won’t be monitored!

The fix to the problem is to set a hidden parameter which can be used to set the limit to a higher value, or you can set it on your SPFILE.

-- To change the default limit to any user defined value.
alter system set "_sqlmon_max_planlines"=450 scope=both;

-- or set it in your SPFILE
_sqlmon_max_planlines=450

Hope It Helped
Prashant Dixit