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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.

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).

Here’s a handy little query I made up the other day to quickly digest any of the segment statistics from the AWR and grab the top objects for the cluster, reporting on each instance.

Any time you see heavy concurrency problems during inserts on table data blocks there should always be one first place to look: space management. Since ancient versions of OPS it has been a well-known fact that freelists are the enemy of concurrency.