Title
Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle
Abstract
Performance tuning in modern database systems requires a lot of expertise, is very time consuming and often misdirected. Tuning attempts often lack a methodology that has a holistic view of the database. The absence of historical diagnostic information to investigate performance issues at first occurrence exacerbates the whole tuning process often requiring that problems be reproduced before they can be correctly diagnosed. In this paper we describe how Oracle overcomes these challenges and provides a way to perform automatic performance diagnosis and tuning. We define a new measure called 'Database Time' that provides a common currency to gauge the performance impact of any resource or activity in the database. We explain how the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) automatically diagnoses the bottlenecks affecting the total database throughput and provides actionable recommendations to alleviate them. We also describe the types of performance measurements that are required to perform an ADDM analysis. Finally we show how ADDM plays a central role within Oracle 10g's manageability framework to self-manage a database and provide a comprehensive tuning solution.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
CIDR
database system
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data mining,Computer science,Oracle,Throughput,Performance tuning,Medical diagnosis,Database
Conference
40
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.36
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karl Dias127629.04
Mark Ramacher2402.36
Uri Shaft31050107.01
Venkateshwaran Venkataramani422115.17
Graham Wood56414.06