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2004-01-17 Thread Tanel Poder
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RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)
development environment. If you can locate the main SQL statement(s), you could run an EXPLAIN PLAN in both your production and development environments. This is not nearly as good a way to diagnose performance problems as the other advice you are receiving, but it has the advantage of being quick (Oracle

RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)
olved recently? That could change the access plan for some sql in the job. Did the plan for the two statements change (presuming they are part of the problem job)? At 09:44 AM 12/29/2003, you wrote: >I have a performance issue in our 11.5.5 Oracle Apps production >environment (Oracle 8.1.7.4). A

Re: RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread ryan_oracle
, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/29 Mon PM 01:14:34 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: A performance problem > > John, > > I can run this in our development environment and trace the j

RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
EXPLAIN PLAN in both your production and development environments. This is not nearly as good a way to diagnose performance problems as the other advice you are receiving, but it has the advantage of being quick (Oracle doesn't actually execute the statement), and may put you on the track of wha

Re: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
olved recently? That could change the access plan for some sql in the job. Did the plan for the two statements change (presuming they are part of the problem job)? At 09:44 AM 12/29/2003, you wrote: I have a performance issue in our 11.5.5 Oracle Apps production environment (Oracle 8.1.7.

Re: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread Arup Nanda
ob to tune it but that is never a satisfactory answer for them. > > > Venu Potluri > > -Original Message- > John Kanagaraj > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:35 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Venu, > > Trying to solve the perfo

RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread John Kanagaraj
e recipients of list ORACLE-L >Subject: RE: A performance problem > > >John, > >I can run this in our development environment and trace the >job. But, the data is quite a bit larger in production. I >can't really take on a refresh/clone now and the prodcution >datab

Re: RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread ryan_oracle
nts of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: A performance problem > > The other database in on a different server. > > I looked at the statspack report for the other database, for the time period in > question. > > Top 5 Timed Events > ~~

RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)
nu Potluri -Original Message- John Kanagaraj Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Venu, Trying to solve the performance issue with a *single* job with Statspack is like searching for a needle in a haystack, especially in an Oracle Apps environment

RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)
e the plan changed do to a change in data or you dont have accurate statistics or a parameter setting changed? > > From: "Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/29 Mon AM 11:44:24 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL

RE: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread John Kanagaraj
Venu, Trying to solve the performance issue with a *single* job with Statspack is like searching for a needle in a haystack, especially in an Oracle Apps environment. You will need to trace the program *as it runs*, and if you cannot do that right now, see if you can clone the database to a test

Re: A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread ryan_oracle
; From: "Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/29 Mon AM 11:44:24 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: A performance problem > > I have a performance issue in our 11.5.5 Oracle Apps production en

A performance problem

2003-12-29 Thread Potluri, Venu (CT Appl Suppt)
I have a performance issue in our 11.5.5 Oracle Apps production environment (Oracle 8.1.7.4). A concurrent job that feeds into another production envrironment (Oracle 9.2) and runs less than an hour typically suddenly took almost 20 hours to finish. The users are as expected up in arms calling

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-17 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Interesting. We noticed the same thing on Windows2000, it doesn't get mentioned often. Does it mean not many people maintain databases that require more than 1.5G of memory on their Windows servers? My impression so far: - one can't use virtual memory on the Windows platform for a busy database,

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-17 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
n2K causes performance degradation..Or just move to advanced server. Murali_Pavuloori/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  12/16/2003 02:04 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORA

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-17 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
: RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation.. I'll throw gasoline on the fire here...   On Win2K you may hit resource limits when you get to 1.5G or so memory used on a 4G server...   Because Windows allocates half the memory to the kernel processes, half to

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-16 Thread Paul Drake
L PROTECTED] > 12/16/2003 02:04 PM > Please respond to ORACLE-L > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject:RE: NT -> Win2K causes > performance degradation.. > > >

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-16 Thread Jared . Still
gt; Win2K causes performance degradation.. We run oracle 9.2.0.3 on Win 2000 and have observed that whenever the memory on ora.exe process reaches around 1.4G, our application runs into "Listener unable to start a dedicated server process" At this point no one will be able to connect t

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-16 Thread Murali_Pavuloori/Claritas
| | Subject: RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation.. | >--| I'll throw gasoline on the fire here...

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
ssage-From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 11, 2003 10:40 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation.. The /3GB does not work for the simple reason that in W2K you have 3GB as max address space. At le

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-13 Thread Cary Millsap
events: - Performance Diagnosis 101: 12/16 Detroit, 1/27 Atlanta - SQL Optimization 101: 2/16 Dallas - Hotsos Symposium 2004: March 7-10 Dallas - Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule details... -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of

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

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

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

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

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&i

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
OK. Before we go blaming Oracle DB, you need to look at the entire picture. 1. Are other applications within the environment affected by slow performance? 2. What other apps are running on the network? 3. Have any network-related diagnostics been performed to ensure that Network bottlenecks are

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Odland, Brad
ustry was a giant scam at that time. Frankly if you have multiple users on citrix attaching to oracle expect poor performance. Think about it. A Citrix server with dozens of users using the same resources to display an entire desktop across the networkHave you determined if it is app performan

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: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Drake
eriences.Cheers!Mark===Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281Sales & Marketing | F: +44 (0)870 127 5283Cool Tools UK Ltd | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]===http://www.cool-tools.co.ukMaximising throughput & p

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
performance issues. Little back ground about our environment. Its third party application (Logician) from GE. There are total 11 databases, all on oracle 8174 H-UX 11i in cluster environment. All the databases are on EMC Symmetrix using 6 disks. All the clients are connecting to database thru

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 th

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
, having an opinion is an art ! -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello Everyone, I am trying to get some help/suggestions reg. how to troubleshoot performance issues. Little back ground about

Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Hello Everyone, I am trying to get some help/suggestions reg. how to troubleshoot performance issues. Little back ground about our environment. Its third party application (Logician) from GE. There are total 11 databases, all on oracle 8174 H-UX 11i in cluster environment. All the databases

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B328882 If we ever find out what the actual cause was, I'll feed it back to the list. For now we've suggested they roll back the Oracle changes, reassess performance, and then increase their memory structures in steps - assessing performanc

Re: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:49 PM Subject: Re: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation.. Mark,   My guess is, that the new OS re-instated the file system caching. By default, 41% (yes, it should have been 42%) of physical memory will be allocated to filesystem caching,

Re: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Drake
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RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen.Lee
Might also be they bumped shared_pool way up and they aren't using bind variables? > -Original Message- > > When they upgraded the memory, by just now much did they increase > db_block_buffers? > > If increased too much, they could be spending a lot of time > waiting on latches, as the

Re: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-10 Thread Jared Still
A size & db_block_buffers. > > Since they've upgraded they have noticed a significant decrease in > performance (the way it was described to me was "it was 7 out of 10, and is > now 3 out of 10"..). > > Has anybody else done a system upgrade of this nature that h

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-10 Thread Goulet, Dick
Mark, I have not done a MicroSlop upgrade, but I have in the past upped the SGA size and gotten when I really did not want, which was database performance degradation. You might ask them to check the pagefile size. If it's system maintained or too small funny things do happen.

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Vincent
ameters back to their pre-upgrade values, then carry out the same performance measures they used to arrive at their "was 7/10, is now 3/10" comment. If the degradation still exists to the same extent, then, yes, it must be the upgrade that produced the problems, and it needs investigati

NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Leith
increased physical memory, they also increased their SGA size & db_block_buffers. Since they've upgraded they have noticed a significant decrease in performance (the way it was described to me was "it was 7 out of 10, and is now 3 out of 10"..). Has anybody else done a system up

Re: Poor performance importing LOBS

2003-12-05 Thread Tanel Poder
What's the CACHE and LOGGING values for these LOBs (from dba_lobs view). If you have NOCACHE LOBs, then import has to write these immediately to disk using direct writes (and to redologs, depending on LOGGING setting). When you have CACHE LOBs, these don't have to be written to datafiles immediate

Poor performance importing LOBS

2003-12-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have a apps 11.0 table that we have been importing with no problem but when we upgraded to apps 11.i the import takes 10 times as long. Upon inspection I found two of the columns have been converted to LOBS. I found a few articles on metalinks that referenced the slow import of LOBS but no

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-26 Thread Carel-Jan
Hi Tim, and all others for your replies. Reminds me I've forgotten to close this thread. Some 'specialist' of the reseller came along, still convinced the characterset was wrong. Until he had to admit that he'd forgotten to create an index.. I was just asking the question to the List because

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-26 Thread Tim Gorman
ote: > Hi List, > > One of my customers gets HP Servicedesk 4.5 implemented. The database that > has been created by on of the DBA's for the application is Oracle 8.1.7.4, > on AIX 4.3. > > The database has characterset UTF8, which is the standard here. > > Now Servi

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-18 Thread Carel-Jan
At 18:24 17-11-03 -0800, you wrote: Hi, Since everyone is just guessing, can you say more detail about the bad performance? High CPU usage with no idle so client wait for CPU time? or Low CPu usage but client still wait? or High disk io rate with 100% disk busy? Can you show us some

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread zhu chao
Hi, Since everyone is just guessing, can you say more detail about the bad performance? High CPU usage with no idle so client wait for CPU time? or Low CPu usage but client still wait? or High disk io rate with 100% disk busy? Can you show us some data about your aix box and statspack

RE: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Goulet, Dick
I really hate to admit it, but I agree. Doing otherwise is a simple recipe for hypertension, stroke & an early death. Besides, it's so much more gratifying be able to say "I TOLD YOU SO". Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Monday, Novemb

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Tanel Poder
The "fun" part is that if the database will perform better after recreation for some reason, then the HP guys (and probably your bosses) will tell you, "we said so" or smth like that :) Of course when performance goes bad again after a week, HP guys will probably ask for a bl

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Daniel Fink
DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: > Being a DBA means learning to live with disappointment. Well said, well spoken, Dennis. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Daniel Fink INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com

RE: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Carel-Jan Look at it this way. Easier to fix the character set now. And if the performance is still bad, then they've got one less excuse. Being a DBA means learning to live with disappointment. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: M

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Carel-Jan
No characterset changed yet. They want us to recreate the database. the system is going live in a few weeks. I simply hate changing things because someone says so. It might be the quickest solution, but most probably not, and then it's a waste of time, energy etc. Here's a wild guess. If the ch

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Yong Huang
800, you wrote: > > >Performance depends on a lot of things, such how much string operations you > >got, what are the contents of your strings (are they mainly latin chars or > >are there lots of asian ones etc..). > > > >Tanel. > > Thanks Tanel for your respond. I dou

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Carel-Jan
Thanks Yong. I doubt whether this can have such a significant effect, or it must be that due to some incompatability an index can't be used (or simply isn't even there). They have to trace the session, alas I'm not allowed to touch the system (other project, other budget blah blah) At 06:54 1

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Carel-Jan
At 10:34 17-11-03 -0800, you wrote: Performance depends on a lot of things, such how much string operations you got, what are the contents of your strings (are they mainly latin chars or are there lots of asian ones etc..). Tanel. Thanks Tanel for your respond. I doubt whether a query will go

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Tanel Poder
rt of next character. So, this means more CPU usage. But, if you migrate your whole database from UTF-8 to UTF-16 and you got a lot of character data, your database overall performance might get worse, since your strings get larger in bytes and retrieving 100 rows might mean reading 20 blocks instead of

Re: Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Yong Huang
on AIX 4.3. > > The database has characterset UTF8, which is the standard here. > > Now ServiceDesk has bad performance. HP claims that the characterset is > wrong, and a new database has to be created with character set > WE8ISO8859P15. > > I've never heard of bad per

Bad performance because of wrong characterset?

2003-11-17 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
Hi List, One of my customers gets HP Servicedesk 4.5 implemented. The database that has been created by on of the DBA's for the application is Oracle 8.1.7.4, on AIX 4.3. The database has characterset UTF8, which is the standard here. Now ServiceDesk has bad performance. HP claims tha

RE: anyone take the 8i performance tuning ocp test?

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Milligan
I'm studying for the 9i Performance Tuning exam, too. I'm glad to hear about the inaccuracies in this book. I have this book and the Oracle Press book by Pack. I also have Oracle Online Learning and I think I will stick more closely to that. Also, hopefully the Self Test Software gi

RE: anyone take the 8i performance tuning ocp test?

2003-11-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Im reading the Sybex OCP book on tuning and it is absolutely loaded with inaccuracies. Is the test the same way? If so do they improve it in 9i? The book is loaded with all types of hit ratios, discussions about committing frequently to IMPROVE performance, and other garbage. anyone know the

anyone take the 8i performance tuning ocp test?

2003-11-12 Thread ryan_oracle
Im reading the Sybex OCP book on tuning and it is absolutely loaded with inaccuracies. Is the test the same way? If so do they improve it in 9i? The book is loaded with all types of hit ratios, discussions about committing frequently to IMPROVE performance, and other garbage. anyone know the

Re: Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-11-02 Thread Tanel Poder
But not because my query was running away. > Memory, cpu and i/o on the server were very low. It > was almost like only a few sessions at a time were > getting to the server. My query maxed out at about 3% > of the cpu. > > Using performance monitor didn't show any massi

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

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 delet

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" <[EM

RE: Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-10-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
query was running away. Memory, cpu and i/o on the server were very low. It was almost like only a few sessions at a time were getting to the server. My query maxed out at about 3% of the cpu. Using performance monitor didn't show any massive usage from the database side either. It was almost

Performance Issue w/ Blob Data

2003-10-31 Thread Larry Hahn
the server. My query maxed out at about 3% of the cpu. Using performance monitor didn’t show any massive usage from the database side either. It was almost like the query was just chugging away under the radar, but preventing others from doing barely any work. As soon as I killed this query, the

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
ned by this query tell me? On 10/28/2003 10:59:25 AM, Binley Lim wrote: > > 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 v

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
gt; Subject: Re: performance issue on select count(*) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:34:59 -0800 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

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

performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-27 Thread Linda Wang
Hi, I have an online application that does a 'select count(*)' on a few tables. The 'select counts' always runs slow (about 10secs) for the first time and then fast again (< 1sec) after subsequent accesses. The query runs slow again when the data is flushed out of the buffer cache. 10046 trace

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread David Kurtz
ing at. Dan - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:29 AM > Hi gurus, > > Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Sun Solaris > One of our databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge > perfor

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread raju pa
e Shareplex, but I do know of others who do & this is notthe first time I hear of performance problems, but I may be able to shedsome light on the problem. Since Shareplex reads the redo logs, if onestatement on the source database affects more than one row (lets say 10for arguments sake), then s

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 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 proble

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
order could be the problem. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 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 s

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
gt; > Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Sun Solaris > One of our databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge > performance problem > > Shareplex is the only process running on this database. > Here is the output of v$session_event

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 s

Re: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Mladen Gogala
ated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process running on this database. Here is the output of v$session_event SID EVENT TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIMEOUTS TIME_WAITED AVERAGE_WAIT -- ------ -- --- -

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process running on this database. Here is the output of v$session_event SID EVENT TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIMEOUTS TIME_WAITED AVERAGE_WAIT -- ------ -- --

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
g? Just some things to start looking at. Dan - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:29 AM > Hi gurus, > > Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Sun Solaris > One of our databases has been updated by Sha

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
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 databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process runn

RE: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Nelson, Allan
databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process running on this database. Here is the output of v$session_event SID EVENT TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIMEOUTS TIME_WAITED AVERAGE_WAIT

Re: Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Hemant K Chitale
upgrading to a faster CPU would help. My comments are just a generalisation. Hemant At 07:29 AM 23-10-03 -0800, you wrote: Hi gurus, Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Sun Solaris One of our databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process running on t

Performance problem with Shareplex and Oracle

2003-10-23 Thread Luc . Demanche
Hi gurus, Oracle 8.1.7.3 on Sun Solaris One of our databases has been updated by Shareplex, and we have a huge performance problem Shareplex is the only process running on this database. Here is the output of v$session_event SID EVENT TOTAL_WAITS TOTAL_TIMEOUTS TIME_WAITED

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Drake
iece of technical documentation in which loopholes areimpermissible.) I never heard of queueing theory until I had to figureout how to predict performance at an Oracle project I was leading in1994.It might be a fun indulgence to say that to be a good Oracle performanceanalyst, you have to mode

RE: Performance tuning book

2003-10-21 Thread Cary Millsap
technical documentation in which loopholes are impermissible.) I never heard of queueing theory until I had to figure out how to predict performance at an Oracle project I was leading in 1994. It might be a fun indulgence to say that to be a good Oracle performance analyst, you have to model your

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

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

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