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Wait Events

Missing wait event

Oracle 11.2.0.1 for Windows is out for some time. I’ve installed it on my 32-bit Windows XP machine because I like Windows – just to check that it’s actually working fine. Playing with TPC-H test using Hammerora I’ve noticed an anomaly in the way Oracle reports IO waits for some queries. Here is a test [...]

Graphing AWR Data in Excel

I often use data collected by the Oracle Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) to help to diagnose performance problems. However, I often work on performance problems with application teams, rather than the DBAs.  It is surprising how often that I don't have access to Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Somebody might say that the system was slow at a particular time. I want to get an overview of the database at that time, and I might also want to compare it to another time when the system wasn't slow. Later I may generate AWR reports using particular pairs of snapshots, but I need something to direct me to when an issue occurred, and hence which snapshots to compare.

Oracle Redo Log Waits



In an ongoing effort to document the main Oracle wait events, here is my current effort at documenting Oracle's redo log related wait events. The original article is at

http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo

and I will be making additional change and adding content as I have time.