Introduction When it comes to performance analysis on Oracle databases, everybody think about Diagnostic Pack. This is a very complete tool and it brings much more metrics than a DBA can analyze. But there is a big drawback with this tool: it’s not included in Standard Edition and it’s an option with Enterprise Edition. If you don’t have this tool,…
By Franck Pachot . When Diagnostic Pack is disabled, either because you don’t have Diagnostic Pack or you are in Standard Edition, I highly recommend to install Statspack. When you will need it, to investigate on an issue that occured in the past, you will be happy to have it already installed and gathering snapshots. I order to be sure…
By Franck Pachot . I’ve published a few month ago an article in the UKOUG OracleScene magazine on Improving Statspack Experience: quick setup script, changing settings, filling Idle Events,etc. In the article, I used dbms_job to schedule the snapshots, because I have this script for years and never took the time to do it with dbms_scheduler. Thanks to Nicolas Jardot…
By Franck Pachot . When you don’t have Enterprise Edition + Diagnostic Pack, you cannot use AWR but you can, and should, install Statspack. Statspack is still there, but unfortunately do not evolve a lot. The most important section, the ‘Top 5 Timed Events’ shows only foreground events, or is supposed to do so. When a user process waits on…
By Franck Pachot . Yesterday I was giving my ‘Interpreting AWR Reports’ Prezi at Oracle Midlands. There is a point where I explain that I always check the ‘Captured SQL account for …% of Total DB Time (s)’ in order to know whether I’ll get all details in the report or not. There are two main reasons why the most…
By Franck Pachot . When presenting ‘Interpreting AWR Reports – Straight to the Goal’ at UKOUG TECH15 I had a very good question about the Statspack report I read which had log file sync much smaller than user commits. I realized that this needs a longer explanation, and that my slide is very misleading because I divided log file sync…
