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Visualizing System Statistics in SQL Developer – OTN Appreciation Day

Tim Hall inspired me with his #ThanksOTN (or “OTN Appreciation Day“) campaign to continue my mini-series on leveraging SQL Developer Reports for DBA tasks. Today with visualizing historical System Statistics from Statspack for performance analyses.

#ThanksOTN I have three favourite Oracle features to rave about today:

  1. Analytic SQL
  2. Statspack
  3. SQL Developer (particularly the reports)!

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Reporting Long Running Operations in SQL Developer

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

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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