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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