Oracle Database 10g brought in a slew of tuning and performance related tools and indeed a new way of dealing with performance issues. Even though 10g has been around for a while, many DBAs haven’t really used many of the new features, mostly because they are not well known or understood. In this Expert session, we will look past the slick demos of the new tuning and performance related tools and go “under the hood”. Using this knowledge, we will bypass the GUI and look at the views and counters that matter and quickly understand what they are saying. Tools covered include AWR, ADDM, ASH, Metrics, Tuning Advisors and their related views. Much of information about Oracle Database 10g presented in this paper has been adapted from my book and I acknowledge that with gratitude to my publisher - SAMS (Pearson).
Many architectural changes have been made to automatically improve memory handling, resource management, storage provisioning, SQL tuning, data movement, recovery speed, and globalization
Available in V_$SESSION, V_$SESSION_WAIT_CLASS, V_$SESSION_WAIT, V_$SESSION_EVENT, V_$SYSTEM_WAIT_CLASS, V_$SYSTEM_EVENT, V_$EVENT_NAME, V_$SERVICE_WAIT_CLASS, V_$ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY, WRH$_EVENT_NAME, WRH$_SERVICE_WAIT_CLASS, WRH$_SERVICE_WAIT_CLASS_BL, DBA_HIST_EVENT_NAME, DBA_HIST_SYSTEM_EVENT, DBA_HIST_BG_EVENT_SUMMARY, etc.
Event breakout: 29 different types of latching and the ‘enqueue’ event breaks out into an amazing 208 types!
Knowing and reporting off STATSPACK data – extend to 10g
Persisted in the WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY
Note the Total Time (30 minutes) – Remember there were only 3 SQL statements selected for tuning, and all of them appear here
Other 9i – MTTR, PGA Aggr Target
Other 9i – MTTR, PGA Aggr Target
Sub-optimal execution plans are generated even if everything is collected (object/system stats, histograms, configuration) – because this a mathematical model (e.g. information about correlated columns). The query optimizer under normal mode makes estimates about cardinality, selectivity, and cost that can sometimes be off by a significant amount resulting in poor execution plans
The default active category is set through the INIT.ORA parameter SQLTUNE_CATEGORY, but can be changed with ALTER SYSTEM or ALTER SESSION. If the SQL statement contains literals, the hash value changes as well, and hence the SQL profile may be useless. 10gR2 allows substitution of literals with bind variables during the normalization phase as long no other bind variables are present in the SQL statement
An STS includes: A set of SQL statements; Associated execution context, such as user schema, application module name and action, list of bind values, and the cursor compilation environment; Associated basic execution statistics, such as elapsed time, CPU time, buffer gets, disk reads, rows processed, cursor fetches, the number of executions, the number of complete executions, optimizer cost, and the command type; Associated execution plans and row source statistics for each SQL statement (optional)
User-defined workload. In this source, you use the Torch icon to choose a table in a schema that contains at least the SQL_TEXT and a USERNAME column. You can use this option to run the advisor on a pre-populated set of SQL statements. Hypothetical load. This is the most intriguing of the choices. Basically, it enables a performance analyst to choose a schema or a set of tables that contain dimensions or primary and foreign key constraints. SQL Access Advisor can then generate recommendations for indexes and materialized views based on these relationships.
Segment Advisor where you can get advice on segments including recommendations to shrink the object. Quick tip: Metalink Note: 242736.1 10g NEW FEATURES on SEGMENT ADVISOR
Undo Advisor which can be used to display Undo usage over a selected period and set Undo parameters using a GUI screen. The Undo Advisor can help you determine the best size for your undo tablespace to ensure successful completion of queries.
Use the Memory Advisor to perform what-if analysis on the database performance benefits of adding or reducing physical memory to your database.
Metric groups indicate: Event Metrics, Event Class Metrics, System Metrics Long Duration, System Metrics Short Duration, Session Metrics Long Duration, Session Metrics Short Duration, Service Metrics, File Metrics Long Duration, Tablespace Metrics Long Duration, Service Metrics (Short)
Metalink Note:332889.1 Oracle Database 10g Migration/Upgrade: Known Issues and Best Practices with Self-Managing Database Metalink Note:276103.1 PERFORMANCE TUNING USING 10g ADVISORS AND MANAGEABILITY FEATURES