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Posted by: Dan Hotka TOAD is a useful tool for finding and tuning SQL statements. This tech tip will focus only on the explain plan from the SQL Editor window. Quest Software has a SQL Tuner environment available to TOAD. The DBA module of TOAD also has a Stats Pack and an AWR viewer built in. Trace files can easily be viewed using the TKProf Interface and the session browser allows for trace to be started/stopped, view current SQL and all open cursors, locking situations involving a particular user, and more.
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