RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-13 Thread Cary Millsap
Avnish, The book goes through this a bit on p61. There are a few tools out there, including three from Oracle. As I mention in the book, I use our own Hotsos Profiler, described at www.hotsos.com/products/profiler.html. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-12 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will try to get the output of v$system_event and will send it you guys. In the > mean time I have more question.. > > I am reading Cary's 'Optimizing Oracle Performance Book'. I am half way thru and > over looked rest of the chapters but didnt fi

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-12 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
I will try to get the output of v$system_event and will send it you guys. In the mean time I have more question.. I am reading Cary's 'Optimizing Oracle Performance Book'. I am half way thru and over looked rest of the chapters but didnt find an easy way to analyze thousands of lines trace file

Re: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-12 Thread Paul Drake
All,   This sounds wy too familiar to me. My (blind) guess is that sql*net round trips is killing performance. System-wide could indicate this, but, as Jared states, trace out a specific session, and grab the session-specific info from v$sesstat, before and after.   We brute forced the issue of

Re: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jared Still
The wholesale system wide collection of timing data is not generally a good way to go about trouble shooting performance issues. You need to pick a process, collect the timing data for that process, and *only* that process, diagnose where the most time is being spent, and determine what can be don

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread John Kanagaraj
** >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:29 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >Subject: RE: Performance tuning in complex environment > > >Not really sure what happened

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Avnish - Since nobody has mentioned it yet (my posts arrive late, so probably will by the time this appears), get Cary Millsap's book Optimizing Oracle Performance http://search.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid =6WIANMIL0H&isbn=059600527X&TXT=Y&itm=1 His methods soun

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
:www.compuware.com -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: Performance tuning in complex environment Not really sure what happened and why we decided to that. I was involved in

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Odland, Brad
Oh I've run into THIS beforeyou are in a sticky technical AND political situation I am sure. It is really not that complex. I'll bet they (your DBAs) have already been told you that the app is horribly designed and it was a mistake and that the hardware is under powered canned "dataserver ins

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks I asked because we also use Citrix and so far we never had a problem related to Citrix, only problems we had were inefficient coding and oracle bugs, nothing related to HW/disk/WTS etc. The only problem initially with Citrix was configuring client printers, but our guys figured it out a

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Not really sure what happened and why we decided to that. I was involved in the beginning of project and remembered that PM was mentioning about talking to another Logician client who were facing same issues. -Original Message- Jamadagni, Rajendra Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:55

Re: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
DBAs should never 'guess' about performance. If they are guessing you need new DBAs. They should be running statspacks, sql trace, and looking at timing data. Its too much to explain in an email. Fire your DBAs and find people who dont 'guess'. How much are you paying these guys? > > From: <

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Ummm ... what was the problem that prompted you guys to replace citrix servers? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts,

Re: Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-11-02 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Maybe it's a delayed commit cleanout issue, due massive deletes, so during your first select most of your buffers involved in delete have to be cleaned out (thus becoming dirty and generating extra redo). Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL

Re: Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-10-31 Thread Larry Hahn
Robin, Thanks for the reply. I figured it would. Thats what we are working at now. It's unfortunate it was set up this way to begin with, but I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Larry --- Robin Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the performance issue with CLOB in one of m

RE: Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-10-31 Thread Larry Hahn
Raj, I agree. I could see where that could affect the overall performance. The analyze wouldnt have an effect on a SELECT COUNT(*) though would it??? That is the piece that really has me stumped at the moment. --- "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After deleting lot of old data, a

Re: Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-10-31 Thread Robin Li
I had the performance issue with CLOB in one of my databases. After I did a re-org, and separated the tables,indexes and CLOB into different tablespaces, the performance got tremendous improvement. Robin - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

RE: Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-10-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
After deleting lot of old data, an analyze of the table is in order though .. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, ha

Re: Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Binley Lim
t. there is no 'exact' very high and very low. you have to interpret it. > > that is about it. Anyone who uses it for anymore than that is wrong. > > > > From: Mladen Gogala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2003/10/28 Tue PM 12:09:34 EST > > To: Multipl

Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Jared . Still
to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        Re: performance issue on select count(*) So, what exactly is indicated by a high or low hit rate? What, exactly, is "high" and what do you con

Re: Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread ryan_oracle
t ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: performance issue on select count(*) > > So, what exactly is indicated by a high or low hit rate? What, exactly, is "high" > and what do you consider "low"? > What "HR" are you talking about? > T

Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
So, what exactly is indicated by a high or low hit rate? What, exactly, is "high" and what do you consider "low"? What "HR" are you talking about? This would be the infamous BCHR: select 'bc_hit_ratio' ratio,( sum(decode(name, 'consistent gets',value,0)) + sum(decode(name,'db block gets', value

Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Binley Lim
The symptom suggests caching is a big factor here - most likely block-buffers. Contrary to ?current? popular beliefs, BCHR is still a very relevant performance indicator - either being very high, or being too low - both of which gives a good indication of something that needs to be looked at.

Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Linda Wang
to client 54 00 0 0 99 SQL*Net message from client53 02893 54.5849057 2698 From: Tim Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-27 Thread Tim Gorman
Linda, I am guessing that since your table is partitioned on an unspecified date column, that the index on TID is either LOCAL or non-partitioned (i.e. GLOBAL). If it is LOCAL (you would have had to specify the keyword, as it is not the default), then you will be performing indexed RANGE scans on

RE: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-27 Thread Linda Wang
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: performance issue on select count(*) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:49:24 -0800 Linda, I guess that the key word is 'partition'. This type of query should

RE: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-27 Thread Stephane Faroult
Linda, I guess that the key word is 'partition'. This type of query should not require to access the table if (hopefully) tid is indexed. If the index on tid is also partitioned, all index partitions have to be searched. My feeling is that in such a case what should run faster is some paralle

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread David Kurtz
One of my clients has been talking to me about similar issues. What kind of system are you replicating? How much redo logging are you generating per day? Does shareplex start to fall behind during the processing peaks? _ David Kurtz Go-Faster Consultancy Ltd. tel: +44 (0)

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread raju pa
Do you have primary keys etc and hint file? Also do you have constraints disabled. Some "Nelson, Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since the results of triggers firing in the source will appear in thelog files, then in general you do not want the same triggers firing inthe target. Similarly since d

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
I probably found my problem. My replicated tables have a lot of indexs. I removed all of them, and step by step I will add indexs who will help my replication. Tx Luc -Original Message- Sent: October 23, 2003 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Since the results of trigge

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
Since the results of triggers firing in the source will appear in the log files, then in general you do not want the same triggers firing in the target. Similarly since data integrity is usually enforced in the source db you can typically disable it in the target. I suppose something on this orde

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
Your DNS is toasty. Gethostbyname is a UNIX system call that takes your ip address and turns it into a name. This could be a big part of your delay. Networked apps do not take kindly to being unable to both forward and reverse lookups. H_errno = 2 is not found. Allan -Original Message

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Goulet, Dick
Now we don't use Shareplex, but I do know of others who do & this is not the first time I hear of performance problems, but I may be able to shed some light on the problem. Since Shareplex reads the redo logs, if one statement on the source database affects more than one row (lets say 10 for ar

Re: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Mladen Gogala
Who's using other 50%? Is SP active or is waiting? On 10/23/2003 02:19:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan, I don't know about the source machine. I receive around 350Megs of data every day. I'm using sp_ctrl to stop and restart my Post process and monitor the queue. I'm pretty sure that the bot

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
Shareplex is fast here. We replicate a 6 CPU db to a 4 CPU machine without excessive loads or problems. We run an average of 29 messages with about 1 GB in the queues. Our data is 0 minutes old. Outside of contacting Quest support I'm sure of how much help I can be. When I have seen SP claim as

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
Dan, The process taking 50% is an Oracle process and it is connected on Shareplex Oracle user. I have two different error messages: 1- "System call error: sp_cop(dsm) Temporary error (h_errno = 2) gethostbyname (can't add entry for ora4) I got this error every 10 minutes, but I didn't find someth

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
Allan, I don't know about the source machine. I receive around 350Megs of data every day. I'm using sp_ctrl to stop and restart my Post process and monitor the queue. I'm pretty sure that the bottleneck come from Shareplex. Oracle is waiting for Shareplex, we have server's resources available (

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
How big is the box that is the source for this machine? Have you tried running sp_ctrl and doing a shutdown and startup? Allan -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi gurus, Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Sun Solaris One of our data

Re: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Hemant K Chitale
With 2 CPUs, a Run-Queue of 1.27 isn't high. As SharePlex seems to be the only process taking CPU, it is taking 100% of 1 CPU. If it is one process only, then the CPU speed __could__ [and I'm not saying "IS"] the constraint. Adding CPUs wouldn't help. However, upgrading to a faster CPU would

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Drake
Cary,   I detoured from the new Tom Kyte book after chapter 4 to read your test through. chapter 6 of the tom kyte book might have been a better band aid for me at the moment, but - I finally (4 weeks after the issue was raised) got a user to let me know when he was going to run a posting routine.

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Cary Millsap
Ryan, Your two questions have different answers. I studied mathematics as an undergrad. I focused on the abstract stuff: predicate calculus, language theory, functional analysis, topology, In my studies I constructed many, Many, MANY proofs. (A "proof" in mathematics is a piece of technical

Re: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Ryan
what is your math background? what level of math would you recommend performance specialists to have? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:49 PM > Michael, I've responded by preceding your questions with "MM:

Re: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Ryan
here is a list of tuning books to read. I used to work with the guy who wrote it. He definitely knows what he is doing. There are quite a few people on this list who can attest to that. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/VL8CI2YJANX1/re f=cm_lm_dp_l_2/102-3468524-1000163

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Milligan
Cary, Thank you for your in-depth response. It was very helpful. To me, the hardest books to read and understand are those that tell you WHAT but not WHY. From the excellent reviews I've received (look at MLaden's review just posted), it appears to give plenty of WHY. I appreciate that very much.

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Milligan
Thank you Dennis. I will take a look at that sample chapter, then probably go out and pick up the book. Thanks again. This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader

Re: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
Cary, I believe that I'm more then entitled to a commission. On 10/21/2003 06:04:26 PM, Michael Milligan wrote: Cary, Thank you for your in-depth response. It was very helpful. To me, the hardest books to read and understand are those that tell you WHAT but not WHY. From the excellent reviews I've

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Milligan
Sorry to double post. It didn't show up on the board and after about an hour I thought there was a problem. Of course as soon as I posted again, they both showed up! I'll be more patient next time. Michael Milligan Oracle DBA Ingenix, Inc. 2525 Lake Park Blvd. Salt Lake City, Utah 84120 wrk 801-98

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Milligan
Cary, Thank you for your in-depth response. It was very helpful. To me, the hardest books to read and understand are those that tell you WHAT but not WHY. From the excellent reviews I've received (look at MLaden's review just posted), it appears to give plenty of WHY. I appreciate that very much.

RE: RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Cary Millsap
t; From: "Cary Millsap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/10/21 Tue PM 03:49:24 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Performance tuning book > > Michael, I've responded by preceding your questions with "MM:&qu

Re: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Fink
I was fortunate to attend the Hotsos Clinic and read the advance version. It is not your normal tuning book. If you are looking for checklists, hand holding, "do x to solve y" solutions, don't bother with the book. If you are looking for a book to teach you the skills to solve your performance prob

Re: RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread rgaffuri
ap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/10/21 Tue PM 03:49:24 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Performance tuning book > > Michael, I've responded by preceding your questions with "MM:" and my > answers with &

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Cary Millsap
Michael, I've responded by preceding your questions with "MM:" and my answers with "CVM:". MM: ...can you please tell me if your new book, of which I've heard good things, is different in any way than other Oracle Performance Tuning books out. Does it take a different approach? CVM: Drastically

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Milligan
Thank you Dennis. I will take a look at that sample chapter, then probably go out and pick up the book. Thanks again. This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Milligan
Sorry to double post. It didn't show up on the board and after about an hour I thought there was a problem. Of course as soon as I posted again, they both showed up! I'll be more patient next time. Michael Milligan Oracle DBA Ingenix, Inc. 2525 Lake Park Blvd. Salt Lake City, Utah 84120 wrk 801-98

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Michael Oh yeah, this book takes a revolutionary approach compared to any other book written to this point. The first chapter is posted at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/optoraclep/index.html read this and you will see that this book is an entirely new method of locating the root cause of Oracle

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Behalf Of Jamadagni, RajendraSent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:54 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Performance Problem Funny ... I have tkprof give up analyzing a 4.2G tracefile on a 64bit platform. anyone else experienced thi

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Laura, I really believe that you should take the 10046 and then contact Hotsos. It may and probably will save you some time and aggravation. They're not very expensive, around $50 per file analyzed. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Burton, Laura Sent: Tuesday, August 26,

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Performance Problem Funny ... I have tkprof give up analyzing a 4.2G tracefile on a 64bit platform. anyone else experienced this?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Cary Millsap
Laura, You might find the problem by checking the things you plan to check, and by following the advice of the book you're using. But the odds are very good that you will not. At least not for a long time... Any application program on your system can tell you where it is spending its time. Let it

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Burton, Laura
No, I had read not to analyze the sys tables in the 'TIP' section of the book I am using as a reference (Oracle Performance Tuning/Tips & Techniques). As I stated earlier, I also made sure that I analyzed all the tables and indexes that were involved, because I had read that leaving a table 'un'an

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Did you analyze the sys schema by mistake. This can stop the fastest database. We had a contractor do that to an 8.0.5 database once, and only once. Ruth > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Burton, Laura > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 4

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Performance Problem 'her' ?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-25 Thread Cary Millsap
Mladen's advice actually covers that. No matter what's causing the slow performance, if something's taking time, then it will show up in the 10046 trace data. "That's why we love her so." Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic 101 in Sydney -

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-25 Thread Brian Dunbar
'Laura' On Monday, August 25, 2003 1:49 PM said; > We currently have an application we are trying to speed up. In > researching rule/cost based optimizers, I read that the cost based > optimizer was the way to go (although rule had its moments) because that > is where Oracle would be focusing any

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-25 Thread John Kanagaraj
Laura, Keep in mind that analyzing tables/indexes will invalidate related SQL in the shared pool. If you have Statspack snapshots at that time, you will see that both latching (for shared pool/library cache) as well as waits for 'library cache pin/locks/loads' was high at that time. You may have o

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-25 Thread Mladen Gogala
To speed up the application, you have to know where the time is spent. Initial estimates can be made based on V$SESSION_WAIT and V$SESSION_EVENT for the application sessions, but to go really deep, you need a detailed performance analysis, based on timings and waits produced by the event 10046, lev

Re: Performance Problem

2003-08-25 Thread Stephane Faroult
"Burton, Laura" wrote: > > We currently have an application we are trying to speed up. In > researching rule/cost based optimizers, I read that the cost based > optimizer was the way to go (although rule had its moments) because that > is where Oracle would be focusing any upgrades, enhancements,

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-25 Thread Stephane Paquette
Was it always slow ? Are you monitoring specifics jobs ? If so, have you run tkprof your main SQL statements ? When running, what are the main ressources Oracle is waiting on ? Have you monitor from the OS ? Are you IO bound or CPU bound ? Cost base optimiser in 805 is not as good as on 8i or 9

RE: Performance Query - help

2003-08-19 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
how about   SELECT DISTINCT tfc_fct_value FROM PD_TMP_AGG_VALS_5071_544,PD_OUTPUT_ITEMS,tp_fact_ctl WHERE OUI_OUT_ID=5071   AND OUI_FACT_ID IS NOT NULL   AND oui_item_type=tfc_item_type AND oui_fact_id in (vd17,vd18,vd19,vd20,vd21) ORDER BY tfc_fct_value /   ??? Raj --

RE: Performance problems VMS 8i

2003-07-15 Thread Niall Litchfield
Or indeed level 8 would do Niall > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Niall Litchfield > Sent: 14 July 2003 21:49 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Performance problems VMS 8i > >

Re: Performance problems VMS 8i

2003-07-15 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! One of first thing I'd check when migrating from 7 to 8i, is settings for optimizer_index_* parameters. And of course, your tables&indexes should be analyzed (if not still explicitly using RBO). Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Performance problems VMS 8i

2003-07-14 Thread Niall Litchfield
Hi Barbara > After an upgrade from Oracle 7.3.4 to 8.1.7.4 on > OpenVMS, some (but not all) of our batch jobs are > suffering severe performance degradation. One of our > critical jobs went from 3 hours to 9 hours elapsed > time. > > The reason is obvious. The solution is not. One of > our jobs

Re: Performance problems VMS 8i

2003-07-14 Thread Jared Still
I'm going to ask the obvious question: Have statistics been generated for the schemas in question? It's assumed that you're now using CBO, and if stats have not been generated, then CBO is making assumptions about the nature of your data. Jared On Monday 14 July 2003 07:54, Barbara Baker wrote

Re: Performance

2003-07-05 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Dear Gaja, With your many splendid deeds in the name of performance management (my personal favorite being the fantastic "Compulsive Tuning Disorder" diagnosis) it's only fair that your name will - until something better comes along - be synonymous (spelling?) with the best RAID-technology ava

RE: RE: Performance

2003-07-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Ramon, Whatever the plan, your stats border on the insignificant (I mean these are very small values and it shouldn't even take 2mn to run). Set TIMED_STATISTICS to TRUE if this is not already done and check system events. There is something unorthodox going on - not purely a matter of SQL p

RE: Performance

2003-07-03 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Stephane, I continue having the same problem, in LAB 2 minutes and in PRODUCTION forever. I made the changes you indicate me. This is the explain plan in LAB, NO STATISTICS with data from yesterday Execution Plan -- 0 SELECT STAT

Re: Performance

2003-07-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
Ramon, I have had a closer look at your coe. My gut feeling is that SELECT MAX(A.ACM_FECACUM), Nvl(A.ACM_ACUMDBANT,0) - nvl(A.ACM_ACUMCRANT,0) + nvl(A.ACM_ACUMDB,0)- nvl(A.ACM_ACUMCR,0) i

RE: Performance

2003-07-01 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Hey, we can kill Martians by singing. Have you ever seen "Mars Attacks"? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now you have made them really mad. Now you

RE: Performance

2003-07-01 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Tks Stephane and Madlen, Still the same problem. I added the hint /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ to the query that invoke the function and it changed from FTS to use Index but still have the same problem. I added the same hint to the function and Nothing. I checked the v$session_wait during the execution o

RE: Performance

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Lee
Now you have made them really mad. Now you will be forced to listen to their singing *AND* their accordion players! > -Original Message- > "All right already! I'll trash all my RAID-5 storage and > replace it with > RAID10!!! For the love of mercy, just PLEASE STOP SINGING!!!" -- Ple

Re: Performance

2003-07-01 Thread Tim Gorman
A musical? Is this what militant extremism is coming to? ...I'll admit though, I'm more inclined to give into the demands of extremists who won't cease singing, rather than give into the more "traditional" actions taken by militants... "All right already! I'll trash all my RAID-5 storage and re

Re: Performance

2003-06-30 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Dear Mogens, Wow!!! How creative you and Pete have gotten with my last name!!! Amazing indeed! I bet my Dad suffered from a few hiccups in the past few days. I am still cooking up something "big" on you my friend - Mogens (pronounced as Moens) Nørgaard (just skip the consanants in the middle and

RE: Performance

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen . HODGKINSON
17:00 get there for 17:50 Stephen Hodgkinson Oracle DBA TotalFina Elf Gas & Power Ltd Phone: 01737 27 5564 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email contains information which is confidential. It is for the exclusive use of th

RE: Performance

2003-06-30 Thread Thater, William
Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > I didn't have the book with me at the time, so I was talking by heart, > from my head. As I am getting older, my memory is obviously playing > tricks on me. I humbly apologize to everybody whom I might have > offended by my bad spelling, di

Re: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread M Rafiq
Mladen, Why do you feel old at the magic age of 42. May be 43 Years now. The book name is ORACLE 101 Performance Tuning by Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha, Kirtikumar Deshpande and John A. Kostelac Jr. Regards Rafiq Oracle Financial GL, AP, AR, PA, Reporting NJ Morristown 1 - 3

Re: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Mladen, There is no tone in email messages... I was not annoyed at all! And you really do not want to hear me sing, small children weep and dogs howl :) I just wanted (at the expense of the oh so massive royalties all authors get) to make sure that the person you were helping bought the book he r

Re: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I can and do get annoyed - but rarely show it. Not worth the effort or stress on me. however, show me someone spouting "hit ratios are the only way to tune" and "raid-5 rules" and you will see annoyance. :) --- Mogens_Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I very seriously doubt that Rachel is a

RE: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
well, perhaps he writes under the name Vaidyanatha.. and uses his true name for his new career? --- Pete Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely not? I was told just last week by the inestimable Mr. Mogens > Norgaard (who we all know as the source of truth) that Gaja's real > name is > Gaja

Re: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I very seriously doubt that Rachel is annoyed. On the contrary. Never experienced it, never will, I think. I believe it's spelled Gaja Vahatneyhatneyhatney, but I could be wrong. Mladen Gogala wrote: Oh, and to grant you Elvis or Cher status, I'd have to hear you sing first. Can you do "Heartb

Re: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
It's true. Gaja Vayanahneenahneeheyheyheyhey (sp?) will star in "BAARF. The Musical." Also - this might come as a surprise to Pete Sharman - the OakTable Choir will be part of the musical, and Pete (who, by the way, is a fantastic baryton singer) will sing one verse of a certain song (lyrics sl

Re: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Oh, and to grant you Elvis or Cher status, I'd have to hear you sing first. Can you do "Heartbreak Hotel" for me? As I have said, I don't have the book with me and I'm equally adept at spelling french names as at spelling indian names, so I decided to give it up. From the tone of your message, yo

Re: Performance

2003-06-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
I didn't have the book with me at the time, so I was talking by heart, from my head. As I am getting older, my memory is obviously playing tricks on me. I humbly apologize to everybody whom I might have offended by my bad spelling, distorting title or forgetting co-authors altogether. I didn't want

RE: Performance

2003-06-27 Thread Pete Sharman
Surely not? I was told just last week by the inestimable Mr. Mogens Norgaard (who we all know as the source of truth) that Gaja's real name is Gaja Vaidyanathanathanatha, and he's about to take on a top-secret new career (details to be revealed at the DB Forum in Denmark in October) ... :) Pete

RE: Performance

2003-06-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Mladen, As one of the authors of DBA 101, I appreciate your plugging my book for me. But Gaja Vaidyanatha (correct spelling) and Kirtikumar Deshpande (both on this list) are the authors of the book I think you meant to talk about: Performance Tuning 101. Marlene (has she now moved onto single na

Re: Performance

2003-06-27 Thread Stephane Faroult
Ramon, This is not a strange case at all; I find quite customary to see dazzling fast queries in a development environment crawl pathetically in production. My Spanish being reduced to some vague remnants of Latin (and just enough to understand the promotion of Mexican holiday resorts) I m

RE: Performance

2003-06-27 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Have you set event 10046, lev 8 for the session? If not, try setting it and then use 9.2 tkprof to see what is the instance waiting for as well to analyze the execution plans and see how they differ. Also, during the execution, you can watch v$session_wait and see what the session is waiting for. I

RE: ADO and bind variables (was RE: Performance improvement required :-))

2003-06-26 Thread Grant Allen
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Pardee, Roy E > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 20:10 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: ADO and bind variables (was RE: Performance improvement > required :-)) >

ADO and bind variables (was RE: Performance improvement required :-))

2003-06-13 Thread Pardee, Roy E
This is interesting--if I use ADO with the ODBC provider (as the code does below), I get the same results. But if I use just ADO (that is, ms' OLE DB provider for oracle (MSDAORA.1)) then I don't get bind vars. (I'm doing INSERTs in my code, not SELECTs). I wonder if oracle's native OLE DB provi

RE: Performance improvement required :-)

2003-06-13 Thread Seefelt, Beth
I'm sure you can. You should see it in an ODBC trace log, or you can use trace events on the database. Here's a really simplistic test I did to verify it. I ran this VB code that executes a really dumb query that could not have come from anywhere else - SELECT DUMMY FROM DUAL WHERE DUMMY = 'X'

RE: Performance improvement required :-)

2003-06-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Using REFCURSOR you can return result set from stored procedure. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Craig Healey Sent: 13. júna 2003 12:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Why can't you use bind variables? I thought using .Parameters method > (pro

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