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Enterprise Manager A graphical all-purpose tool that can be used to identify when a spike occurred, drill down to the cause, and examine ADDM recommendations. The benefit of a graphical representation of performance data is visible (pun intended). Data visualizations display any skew directly.

Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) An expert system that automatically identifies and recommends solutions for many instance-wide performance problems. Best used for longer-duration performance problems (that is, problems that are continuous or ongoing for a large proportion of the snapshot interval). The symptoms and problems are available by running the ADDM report, and through Enterprise Manager.

Active Session History (ASH) An all-purpose tool providing data that is useful when investigating system-wide problems, shorter-duration spikes, or smaller-scoped problems (for example, for a specific user, or SQL, or a module/action).The advantage of using ASH data when compared to other diagnostic information is that the data is of a finer granularity. This allows you to look at a problem to identify how the symptoms "build up," or allows you to determine exactly which resources are involved and who is using them. The ASH data can be queried directly or accessed via a targeted ASH report.

Unfortunately data modeling is not yet covered by the Unified Modeling Language (UML), even though persistence-related issues are clearly an important aspect of object-oriented software project.

The good news is that the Object Management Group (OMG) issued an RFP for an official UML Data Modeling Profile in December 2005.

This page summarizes the data modeling profile for UML Class Diagrams, that I apply in Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and Refactoring Databases.  First some important definitions:

Statistics are somewhat fallible in that they are seldom 100 percent accurate, but in most cases they do sufficiently indicate what was intended. Be sure you understand what each statistic represents and the units used (there is a big difference between microseconds and centiseconds).

Time-breakdown statistics (Time Model) make it significantly easier to determine the type of operations that are consuming resources in the database.

DB time: Time spent by all user processes in the database (that is,. non-idle wait time + CPU time).

Each time you execute this statement; Oracle will convert it to an ASCII function and apply a hashing algorithm over it; than it will check if this SQL statement is already present in the SHARED POOL.

If the statement is in the SHARED POOL, Oracle will reuse (soft parse) it together with its execution plan. If the statement is not in the SHARED POOL, Oracle will have to do a hard parse.

Oracle’ CBO can generate more optimized execution plan if the he knows upfront the values of the filter predicated, meaning if the values are literals and not bind variables.

Cons of ASSM: §         Slow for full-table scans: Several studies have shown that large-table full-table scans (FTS) will run longer with ASSM than standard bitmaps. ASSM FTS tablespaces are consistently slower than freelist FTS operations. This implies that ASSM may not be appropriate for decision support systems and warehouse applications unless partitioning is used with Oracle Parallel Query. §        Slower for high-volume concurrent inserts: Numerous experts have conducted studies that show that tables with high volume bulk loads perform faster with traditional multiple freelists. §         ASSM will influence index clustering: For row ordered tables, ASSM can adversely affect the clustering_factor for indexes. Bitmap freelists are less likely to place adjacent tows on physically adjacent data blocks, and this can lower the clustering_factor and the cost-based optimizer's propensity to favor an index range scan.

Pros of ASSM: §          Varying row sizes: ASSM is better than a static pctused. The bitmaps make ASSM tablespaces better at handling rows with wide variations in row length. §         Reducing buffer busy waits: ASSM will remove buffer busy waits better than using multiple freelists. When a table has multiple freelists, all purges must be parallelized to reload the freelists evenly, and ASSM has no such limitation. §         Great for Real Application Clusters: The bitmap freelists remove the need to define multiple freelists groups for RAC and provide overall improved freelist management over traditional freelists.

Cons of ASSM: §         Slow for full-table scans: Several studies have shown that large-table full-table scans (FTS) will run longer with ASSM than standard bitmaps. ASSM FTS tablespaces are consistently slower than freelist FTS operations. This implies that ASSM may not be appropriate for decision support systems and warehouse applications unless partitioning is used with Oracle Parallel Query. §          Slower for high-volume concurrent inserts: Numerous experts have conducted studies that show that tables with high volume bulk loads perform faster with traditional multiple freelists. §          ASSM will influence index clustering: For row ordered tables, ASSM can adversely affect the clustering_factor for indexes. Bitmap freelists are less likely to place adjacent tows on physically adjacent data blocks, and this can lower the clustering_factor and the cost-based optimizer's propensity to favor an index range scan.

failed to start a managed process after the maximum retry limit Log: /home/oracle/product/10.2.0/oms10g/opmn/logs/WebCache~WebCache~1

failed to start a managed process after the maximum retry limit Log: /home/oracle/product/10.2.0/oms10g/opmn/logs/WebCache~WebCacheAdmin~1

b.Login as root user and execute following command OMS_HOME/webcache/bin/webcache_setuser.sh setroot <username> Note: In place of the <username> you should give the user name which you use to start oms.

Adaptive Cursor Sharing is a new feature starting from Oracle version 11g release 1. The idea behind is to improve the execution plans for statements with bind variables. CBO has been enhanced to allow multiple execution plans to be used for a single statement with bind variables, without hard parsing the SQL.

There is no special way to configure ACS. It is on by default and of course there is a hidden initialization parameter to turn it off if needed. Key role in the process of decision whether ACS will be used for a particular statement are: Two new columns in V$SQL view (IS_BIND_SENSITIVE and IS_BIND_AWARE) Three new views (V$SQL_CS_HISTOGRAM, V$SQL_CS_SELECTIVITY, V$SQL_CS_STATISTICS)