Getting Actual Execution Plan in Oracle 11g

Question

I have read this post and this excellent article

My question is, how to get the acutual execution plan in Oracle 11g

without

Answer 1

If you're developer, maybe I can request SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE to be granted you. In 11g it is harmless to grant it. This will allow read-only access to most of the information DBAs have.

This will give you an access to v$sql_plan*, v$session_longops, V$lock, V$SQL_BIND_CAPTURE and other performance related data.