Category Archives: DBA

Reporting Long Running Operations in SQL Developer

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Today here’s a shorter post about my experiments with Oracle SQL Developer’s user-defined reports: A report on all long running operations (“LongOps”) with details on session wait events, explain plans and live SQL monitoring.

“Wait a minute”, you might say, “there’s already the session report in SQL Developer’s standard reports that shows Session_LongOps”! – and you’re right, it’s been integrated in SQLDev for quite some time.

BUT: I wanted to view the LongOps from a different perspective: To find out what’s taking so long in the database generally, it would be better in my humble opinion to start with ALL LongOps and drill down from there.

Here’s how it looks on a live system:

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Visualizing Statspack “Average Active Sessions” in SQL Developer

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This is the second post in my mini-series on leveraging SQL Developer Reports for DBA tasks, today with visualizing Average Active Sessions (AAS). In this article I’ll cover

  • What AAS is and how to interpret it
  • How to build a basic line graph in SQL Developer
  • How to extend the graph with detailed child reports (Time Model Statistics and Top Events)

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Visualizing Statspack Performance Data in SQL Developer

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If you run Oracle Standard Edition or haven’t licenced Diagnostics Pack for Enterprise Edition, then you don’t have AWR and ASH Data available. This is when Statspack, the predecessor of AWR, comes in handy to keep a history of database performance metrics.

But although Oracle still deliver Statspack with their recent DB releases (yes, even in 12c it’s not dead!), there are few tools that support it. But wait – Oracle SQL Developer has a nice reporting feature built in, so why not build custom statspack reports for this great free tool?

This motivated me to start a series on leveraging SQL Developer Reports for DBA tasks, starting with visualizing logical I/O history.

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