How do I troubleshoot performance problems with an Oracle SQL statement

Question

I have two insert statements, almost exactly the same, which run in two different schemas on the same Oracle instance. What the insert statement looks like doesn\'t matter - I\'

Answer 1

I agree with a previous poster that SQL Trace and tkprof are a good place to start. I also highly recommend the book Optimizing Oracle Performance, which discusses similar tools for tracing execution and analyzing the output.