About Us

I am Oracle ACE Director Sr. Technical Consultant, Enkitec Enkitec is an Oracle Platinum Partner specializing in the following areas: Oracle Exadata Oracle Database, including RAC Oracle Database Performance Tuning Oracle APEX and so much more!

Your Challenge, if you accept it..

Upgraded to 11g in previous year.
Hybrid environment, used for transactional, ETL and

reporting. Consistent degradation in last year. Had loaded on average 400 business through ETL per hour, now down to 2-300. Code review and enhancement of ETL process in works, but what can you offer us outside of that? Goal: Load 700 business per hour!!

Tools of the Oracle Trade

AWR data was first offered by onsite DBA, but

switched to ASH to provide more defined, smaller timeline data collections. Gave more clear samples of what was occurring in the database at a given time. Drilled down to code that was deprecated and unexpected. EM12c available and used to enhance findings from ASH reports and to provide further research.

Why AWR Wasnt the Answer

Smaller snapshots in time to allow more definitive

picture of performance challenges and when occurring. Quantity of executions were not focus, but wait times.

Why ASH Was

More definitive breakdown of data.
Session level information. Wasnt interested in how many times, wanted to know

what was the impact.

Top SQL
STATS_ADMIN??
SQL Analyze??

What does this SQL Originate from?

SQL Profiles with DBMS_ADMIN

By viewing Session SQL history from EM12c, was able to see

how reality was askew vs. what analyze of tables fed the CBO and SQL Tuning Analyzer. SQL Profiles were NOT offering better, more stable performance.

ASH Report Define CPU

Breakdown by the minute, by interval.

Ash Analytics
CPU + Wait for CPU can be misleading.
Is the CPU simply used or is here a real problem?

Parallel, Not Just for Reporting Anymore

When SQL Tuning Advisor Automated Jobs are NOT your Friend

What Caused This?

Due to high profile environment, change that could be

impacting was avoided, including stats collection enhancement in proprietary package implemented in 9i. DBMS_ADMIN was deprecated and its analyze of objects did not offer proper data for Cost Based Optimizer. Tuning Analyzer was implemented as part of 11g upgrade automatically and utilizing valuable ETL time resources.

Steps to Correct
Migrated to full DBMS_STATS collection, disabling

jobs using STATS_ADMIN pkg with DBMS_ADMIN. Removed SQL Profiles that were impacted by incorrect information fed to CBO by DBMS_ADMIN. Migrated select b-tree indexes to bitmap indexes, also much needed disk space. Continued to review ASH, AWR and Session SQL performance for improvement.

Data Load Per Hour Increase

Performance Increase Post Stats Change-

Where they Are Today

With further enhancements, both physical and logical

tuning:

750 !!