Robert - Excellent ideas! To bounce off your ideas, one thought is to find
out what matters most to the users and create some statistics based on that.
For example, one of our applications has a process that performs really
badly during the peak season. Some fixes have been tried, but management
doesn't want to expend the effort to fix it. However, the application does
write statistics to a log, so I load those values into an Oracle table and
report the results to the management. They feel it works as an indicator for
many other factors. Basically a "canary in a coal mine". Because it is an
indicator that means something to them and they can relate to, it is worth
expending a fair amount of effort.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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A few idears...
 
Summarize total database size growth (growth of the actual data, not the
object) and deltas by tablespace.
 
Summarize actual object growth (object as opposed to size, contrast against
overall total tablespace space) and deltas.
 
Create a "benchmark" query that runs at various times during the day. Plot
the 
run results and provide an average run time report and graphed plots.
 
Problem/on-call reports with problem summaries (this can be real telling)...
 
Average backup run time for the week.
 
Plot the following:
 
number of active users for database.
HWM concurrent users connected for each day.
HWM for concurrent transactions for each day.
 

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Hi, 

I am looking for ideas on what kind of metrics the DBA group should provide
the management on a weekly basis so they can understand how the databases
are evolving over time.

These metrics should be simple enough as the management is not Oracle savvy.


Thanks in advance! 

Yuval. 

Sr. DBA - WWF 

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