‘Performance’ Archives
11gR2: Monitoring Real Time SQL Plan Execution from Oracle Enterprise Manager
Ever since 11gR2 has been released, it has created a lot of buzz in Oracle Blogosphere with various posts on 11g Release 2 (11gR2 ) New Features primarily ASM New features. I would like to introduce you all to a feature which has been incorporated in 11gR2 Oracle [Read More]
dbms_stats.copy_table_stats does not alter low/high value
I was working on a performance issue arising due to missing table stats on a new partition for large Partitioned table.This was a 10.2.0.4 database on IBM AIX 5L. So as to resolve the issue , I used dbms_stats.copy_table_stats to copy the stats to new parition from the [Read More]
Connections to DataBase Hang Including “/ as sysdba”
Recently I faced one issue where all the connection to database hung and it was also not possible to login to database using “/ as sysdba”. To get access of sqlplus I used the following syntax: $ sqlplus -prelim / as sysdba With “prelim” option we [Read More]
Index Access best approach?? Not Always…
There is a common misconception that Index access is the best access method for query execution. This approach leads to people concentrate on removing Full Table Scans (FTS) from the Query execution plan. I recently worked on a performance tuning issue where I found such [Read More]
11g New Feature: Database Replay
Database Replay: In critical production systems, before making changes to the environment( Hardware or software related), lots of testing is required in test systems to know the effect of those changes and this usually takes lots of time to test for the stability and [Read More]
Diagnostics For Database Hang
Many times Oracle DBA’s are in a situation when the database is hung and does not seem to be responding. In some scenarios, state is such that you cannot even connect to the sqlplus session. Majority people restart the database (Sometimes I wonder if this is due to [Read More]
