STATSPACK TOOL

BY:
OHM TRIVEDI (12BCE054)
BHAVNEET KAUR SACHDEVA (12BCE060)

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF:

PROF. ANITHA MODI

STEPS FOR INSTALLING AND RUNNING STATSPACK TOOL

IN ORACLE
NOTE: Run the SQL Command Line as Administrator all the times.

1. CREATE PERFSTAT TABLE

CREATE TABLESPACE perfstat
DATAFILE 'C:\oraclexe\oradata\XE\perfstat.dbf' SIZE 1000M REUSE
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 512K
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
PERMANENT
ONLINE;

2. RUN THE SPCREATE.SQL SCRIPT TO INSTALL STATSPACK

@C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\RDBMS\ADMIN\spcreate.
sql
This will ask for password for perfstat user, enter the password you want.
Then it will ask for default tablespace to be assigned, enter perfstat (tablespace
name created in the first step).
Then, for temporary tablespace, enter the tablespace temp.
If, your oracle is working correctly and all the above steps are performed
properly, your user will be created with no errors.

3. LOGIN TO ORACLE AS PERFSTAT USER

CONNECT PERFSTAT/<YOUR-PASSWORD>

4. TAKE THE SNAPSHOT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF DATABASE

EXECUTE STATSPACK.SNAP;
If the perfstat user is created perfectly with all the inbuilt installations and tables,
then this inbuilt procedure will run successfully else it will throw an error that it is
not defined.

5. PERFORM ANY TRANSACTION IN THE DATABASE

This step is done to change the state of the database so that we can again take a
snapshot of the new state of database and generate a report for the condition of
database between these two states.
Example query:
CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE (NAME VARCHAR2(30));
INSERT INTO EMPLOYEE VALUES (PERFSTAT);

6. AGAIN TAKE THE SNAPSHOT OF THE SYSTEM

EXECUTE STATSPACK.SNAP;

7. NOW, FOR TE REPORT TO BE GENERATED YOU NEED THE SNAP

ID
select name,snap_id,to_char(snap_time,'DD.MM.YYYY:HH24:MI:SS')
"Date/Time" from stats$snapshot, v$database;
This will return all the snapshots taken of your system with their name, snap_id
and date/time. From this, you can note down the two most recent snap_id for
your report generation.
Take the first one as begin_snap_id and the recent one as end_snap_id.

8. RUN THE SCRIPT SPREPORT.SQL

@C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\RDBMS\ADMIN\spreport.
sql
This will first ask for begin_snap_id and then end_snap_id. Enter the values which
were returned from the previous step. It will then ask for report name, enter any
name you want.
After the completion of this step successfully, your report will be generated in .lst
format and you can view the report in /bin folder of your oracle.
You can then study and analyse the report and study the state and working of
the system.
YOU CAN REFER THESE LINKS BELOW FOR MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS OF REPORT
AND ALSO FOR THE STEPWISE EXECUTION OF STATSPACK

REFERENCES:
1. http://www.pafumi.net/Statspack_Analysis.html
2. http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_statspack_survival_guide.html