Some times I feel like Ia??ve missed out on a whole chunk on functionality in Oracle products. One little nugget is the a??timinga?? function in SQL*Plus. This allows you to time groups of operations.
Obviously turning on is achieved with the a??set timing ona?? operation. i.e
SQL > set timing on
SQL > select count(1) from all_objects;
COUNT(1)
----------
68653
Elapsed: 00:00:03.95
SQL>
Which is great but what if want to time mulitiple operations. Use the timing function and simply give the timer a name, in this case statement timer.
SQL> timing start statement_timer
SQL> select count(1) from all_objects;
COUNT(1)
----------
68653
SYS@orcl > /
COUNT(1)
----------
68653
SQL> timing show statement_timer;
timing for: statement_timer
Elapsed: 00:00:30.85
SQL>
Which times anything that went on in between the timer starting and finishing. In this case also my typing of the commands. Its a fantastic utility for timing stages in a batch job including call outs to os operations.
