Oracle Database 10g new performance Features

The new and updated performance features in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2)
include:

■ Active Session History Reports
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Active Session History (ASH) reports contains ASH information that can be used
to identify blocker and waiter identities and their associated transaction identifiersand SQL for a specified duration.

■ Automatic PGA Memory Management
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A new view has been added to monitor dynamic PGA memory usage for each
Oracle process. See for descriptions of the V$PROCESS_MEMORY view.

■ Automatic Shared Memory Management
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Automatic Shared Memory Management simplifies the configuration of System
Global Area (SGA) memory-related parameters through self-tuning algorithms.
Automatic Shared Memory Management has been enhanced and the streams pool
is now auto tuned as part of the automatic SGA management.

■ Automatic Tuning of Multiblock Read Count
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The DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT initialization parameter is now
automatically tuned to use a default value when this parameter is not set
explicitly. see for more information on the DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT parameter.

■ Automatic Workload Repository Reports
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Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports display statistics for a range of
snapshot Ids. Two new reports, awrsqrpt.sql and awrsqrpi.sql, have been
added to view statistics for a particular SQL statement.

■ Configurable Automatic Workload Repository SQL Collection
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The Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) collects, processes, and maintains
performance statistics for problem detection and self-tuning purposes, including
SQL statements that are producing the highest load on the system. This feature
has been enhanced to enable the configuration of the number of Top SQL to flush
for each SQL criteria (Elapsed Time, CPU Time, Parse Calls, Shareable Memory,
and Version Count).

■ Database Replay
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You can capture a database workload on a production system and replay it on a
test system to ensure that system changes, such as database upgrades, will yield
desired results.

■ Enhanced End to End Application Tracing
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End to End Application Tracing identifies the source of an excessive workload,
such as a high load SQL statement. This feature has been enhanced to enable SQL
tracing on a session, instance wide, or an entire database level.

■ Improved System Statistics
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The V$SYSSTAT view has added rows to capture the total number of physical
I/O’s performed by any Oracle process. Additionally, a new event has been added to reduce the memory used formaintaining statistics on events in the Other wait class.

■ SQL Access Advisor
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The SQL Access Advisor and its related DBMS_ADVISOR package now recommend
function-based indexes, the recommendation process can now be interrupted and
there are improvements in the Oracle Enterprise Manager.

■ SQL Performance Analyzer
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The SQL Performance Analyzer enables you to forecast the impact of system
changes on SQL performance by testing these changes using a SQL workload on a
test system.

■ SQL Profiles
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The DBMS_SQLTUNE package now also offers the ability to allow SQL with text
differing only in its literal values to share a SQL Profile by normalizing literal text values to bind variables.

■ SQL Tuning Advisor
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Note: Only workload capture is currently supported in this release.
Captured workloads can be preprocessed and replayed on Oracle
Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) and subsequent releases.

Note: Only SQL workload capture is currently supported in this
release. Captured SQL workloads can be executed, and their
performance can be measured and compared, on Oracle Database 11g
Release 1 (11.1) and subsequent releases.

It is now possible to monitor the execution progress of the SQL Tuning Advisor
using the new V$ADVISOR_PROGRESS view.

■ SQL Tuning Sets
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SQL Tuning Sets can now be exported to or imported from another system using
the DBMS_SQLTUNE package procedures.

■ V$SQLSTATS View
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A new view, V$SQLSTATS, returns performance statistics for SQL cursors.
V$SQLSTATS contains a subset of columns that appear in V$SQL and
V$SQLAREA. However, the V$SQLSTATS view differs from V$SQL and
V$SQLAREA in that it is faster, more scalable, and has a greater data retention. It is recommended that V$SQLSTATS be used in place of V$SQL when fetching
statistics for SQL cursors.