Tracking the progress of long-running queries

Sometimes there are batch jobs or long-running queries in the database that may take a while to complete. This query will show the status of the query -- how much of it is completed. In oth...

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er words, this may be viewed as a "progress bar" for the query. It has been tested on v. 9.2.04 on Tru64 and Windows. (Note: This tip is a modified version of a tip from Oracle documentation.)

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