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In my previous article, I talked about what to look for once you have a performance issue
with Apps 11i. In this article, I'll discuss four maintenance activities that you can do
proactively to reduce the chances of encountering certain types of performance issues:
You need to ensure that any data that needs to be purged is scheduled on a regular basis.
The data that can (or should) be purged will vary between different products, so confirm
the recommendations for the specific products you are using. All customers will
generally need to schedule purging activities for the FND and Workflow products.
Naturally, your business requirements may be unique; review our purging documentation
for suitability and establish your own list of jobs to run.
Also keep track of number of rows in underlying Workflow tables to ensure they are not
continually increasing, to ensure the data really is being purged
In general, running this monthly to bi-weekly should be sufficient with 10%, unless there
is any known data skew. As with any generic suggestion, this would need to be proven
for suitability on your own environment. For example, it is more important to run this
when your data distribution changes, rather than when the amount of data changes.
If your environment is a 24x7 system, you should pick "N" for "Invalidate Dependent
Cursors" to prevent fragmentation of the shared pool
Despite new 10g features making ORA-4031 errors a rare occurrence, it is still
recommended to have a pinning strategy, even with Apps 11.5.10 running on 10gR2
databases.
General guidance
• Pinning Oracle Applications Objects into the Shared Pool (Metalink Note
69925.1). This Note is Apps 11i specific, but you will still need to manually
interpret and act on the scripts provided.
Conclusion
Running regular maintenance tasks and ongoing monitoring are essential activities to
ensure that your system is performing to the best of its ability. This article highlights a
few of the areas that are sometimes overlooked in Apps DBA schedules.
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