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RAC Service Level Agreements

08.16.2010 · Posted in General, RAC, Tip

When downtime matters you need to determine high availability ratios, this is often expressed as the percentage (%) of uptime in a year. The following table shows the approximate downtime that is allowed for a specific percentage of high availability: The following table from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) illustrates the correlation from a ...

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Global Cache Waits – White Paper

07.02.2010 · Posted in 10g R1, 10g R2, Internals, RAC, White Papers

Who should read this white paper? This white paper is intended to be accessible to those who are not relatively new to the Real Applications Cluster performance. Familiarity with advanced Oracle concepts and SQL language is assumed. About Technical Reviewers Pablo Albeck – Oracle Practice Manager at Oracle Corporation, with several years of experience in ...

Draft RAC GCS White Paper its comming up!

06.07.2010 · Posted in White Papers

Still reviewing. Thanks for your interest.  I wrote a White Paper that actually is  under revision.  It will be distributed the first month exclusively  from http://oracleracsig.org Bookmark this page and come back after Jun 21, 2010. Regards, J ...

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DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO – 11g R2

05.30.2010 · Posted in 11g R1, 11g R2, Feature, Performance, RDBMS

This utility was introduced in Oracle 11.1, it is an excellent tool to understand if your actual workload is overloading your disks or file systems. I/O is very important  in an Oracle database so I really recommend to all DBAs the use of this great utility to  know the actual capacity of your hardware. Below ...

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RAC LMS processes

05.25.2010 · Posted in Internals, Performance, RAC

Background Processes From 10g and over, Real Application Cluster databases has two new background processes: LMON – The Global Enqueue Service Monitor monitors the entire cluster to manage the global enqueues and the cluster resources. LMON manages instance and process failures and the associated recovery for the Global Cache Service (GCS) and Global Enqueue Service ...

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Oracle Premier Support for 10gR2 ends in July 2010.

05.22.2010 · Posted in Tip

Premier Support for the 10gR2 database ends in July 2010.  If you haven’t already started planning your 11g database upgrade, we recommend that you start as soon as possible . ...

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RAC Interconnect Performance

05.19.2010 · Posted in Internals, Performance, RAC

The contention in blocks can be measured by using the block transfer statistic. The first step is to determine block transfer time examining  the gv$sysstat view: global cache cr block receive time global cache cr blocks received. The time is determined by calculating the ratio of global cache cr block receive time to global cache ...

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Performance Advantages of using PL/SQL

05.16.2010 · Posted in Performance, Technology, Tip

PL/SQL can often add to program functionality and programmer efficiency, and there are certainly many cases in which a procedural language such as PL/SQL can do things that a nonprocedural language such as SQL cannot. For a number of reasons, a PL/SQL approach might offer great performance improvements over a traditional SQL approach. Why to ...

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AWR – Examples of how to get top resources and other information

04.05.2010 · Posted in Performance, RDBMS, Scripts, Tip

Some useful awr queries, change according your needs. Top 10 queries by resource usage across all executions SELECT * FROM   (SELECT   SQL_ID, SUM(disk_reads_delta) AS “Disk Reads” FROM     DBA_HIST_SQLSTAT S WHERE    SNAP_ID > 209 AND SNAP_ID <= 210 AND S.MODULE = ‘ClaimCenter’ GROUP BY SQL_ID HAVING   SUM(disk_reads_delta) >= 0 ORDER BY 2 DESC) DERIVED_TABLE WHERE  ROWNUM ...

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Does GoldenGate replicate to TimesTen?

03.24.2010 · Posted in TimesTen, White Papers

Yes, it does. Capture is still not supported by GoldenGate, but I know Oracle actually is evaluating the possibility. Sources From an old GoldenGate WhitePaper (This WP was wrote before Oracle acquire TimesTen) … Comprehensive Platform Support GoldenGate can replicate data bi-directionally between any combination of Oracle, DB2,Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, NonStop SQL and ...

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