建議安裝（10g即以上版本上）xplan package，XPALN包其實是對DBMS_XPLAN包的封裝，使用XPLAN包就可以很清晰的看到執行計劃的執行順序。

安裝很簡單：其中xplan.sql_.txt可以到如下的網站下載：

[[email protected] ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Feb 12 10:59:14 2014

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL> @xplan.sql_.txt

Type created.

Type created.

old  13: &&_awr_start
new  13: /*
old  19: &&_awr_end
new  19: */

Package created.

old 270: &_awr_start
new 270: /*
old 342: &_awr_end
new 342: */

Package body created.

下面我用剛才已經安裝好的XPLAN包的同名方法來檢視目標SQL執行計劃：

SQL> select count(*) from hr.t1;

  COUNT(*)
----------
    201276

SQL>  select sql_text,sql_id,child_number from v$sql where sql_text like 'select count(*) from hr.t1%';

SQL_TEXT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SQL_ID        CHILD_NUMBER
------------- ------------
select count(*) from hr.t1
bdw8bnh2qhwcm            0

SQL> select * from table(xplan.display_cursor('bdw8bnh2qhwcm',0,'advanced'));

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SQL_ID  bdw8bnh2qhwcm, child number 0
-------------------------------------
select count(*) from hr.t1

Plan hash value: 3724264953

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Order | Operation          | Name | Rows  | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 |     3 | SELECT STATEMENT   |      |       |   617 (100)|          |
|   1 |     2 |  SORT AGGREGATE    |      |     1 |            |          |

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   2 |     1 |   TABLE ACCESS FULL| T1   |   201K|   617   (2)| 00:00:08 |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Query Block Name / Object Alias (identified by operation id):
---------------------------------------------------------------------

   1 - SEL$1
   2 - SEL$1 / [email protected]$1

Outline Data
-------------

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  /*+
      BEGIN_OUTLINE_DATA
      IGNORE_OPTIM_EMBEDDED_HINTS
      OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE('10.2.0.1')
      ALL_ROWS
      OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$1")
      FULL(@"SEL$1" "T1"@"SEL$1")
      END_OUTLINE_DATA
  */

PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Column Projection Information (identified by operation id):
-----------------------------------------------------------

   1 - (#keys=0) COUNT(*)[22]

38 rows selected.

從上面可以看出有一個ORDER列，它列出了目標SQL的實際執行步驟。