Oracle Wait Interface

Overview

Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially.

Table of contents

Ch 1 – Introduction to Oracle Wait Interface

Ch 2 – Oracle Wait Interface Components

Ch 3 – Common Wait Events

Ch 4 – OWI Monitoring and Collection Methods

Ch 5 – Interpreting Common I/O Related Wait Events

Ch 6 – Interpreting Locks-Related Wait Events

Ch 7 – Interpreting Common Latency-Related Wait Events

Ch 8 – Wait Events in a Real Application Clusters Environment

Ch 9 – Performance Management in Oracle Database 10g

Appendixes

A – Oracle Diagnostic Events

B – Enqueue Waits in Oracle Database 10g

C – Oracle Dumps and Traces

D – Direct SGA Access

E – References

Back cover copy

Identify and Resolve System Bottlenecks Quickly
Troubleshoot, diagnose, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This exclusive Oracle Press guide explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface (OWI) to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially. Get extensive details on all the OWI features, including the wait event views, their applications, and the extended SQL trace file. This invaluable resource will help you maximize the most advanced diagnostics tool available and minimize processing time.

Identify performance problems using wait event statistics
Monitor session-level wait events and collect historical data for root cause analysis
Interpret common I/O-related wait events
Diagnose and solve problems related to locking and serialization
Analyze latency-related wait events
Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the Oracle Real Application Clusters environment
Learn about the Oracle Database 10g revolutionary approach to performance diagnostics and tuning