Overview of Oracle9i Database Performance Tuning
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following: • Define the roles associated with the database
tuning process
• Describe the dependencies between tuning in
Identify tuning goals Identify common tuning problems
different development phases • Describe service level agreements • • • Employ tuning activities during development
and production
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• Balance performance and safety trade-offs
Tuning Questions
– Application designers – Application developers – Database administrators – System administrators
• Who tunes?
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• What to tune? • How much tuning?
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Tuning Phases
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Tuning can be divided into different phases: • Application design and programming • Database configuration • Adding a new application to an existing database • Troubleshooting and tuning
Tuning Goals
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Tuning goals are usually specified in terms of: • Reducing or eliminating waits • Accessing the least number of blocks • Caching blocks in memory • Minimizing response time • Increasing throughput • Increasing load capabilities • Decreasing recovery time • Instance hit percentages
Common Performance Problems
– Limits scalability to a point that cannot be
• Bad session management
exceeded
– Makes the system one or two orders of magnitude
slower than it should be
– Unnecessary table joins performed – Usually a result of trying to build an object interface
• Bad cursor management • Bad relational design
to relational storage
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Tuning Steps During Development
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• • • • • • Tune the design Tune the application Tune memory Tune I/O Tune contention Tune the operating system
Collect a Baseline Set of Statistics
A baseline set of statistics is used to: • Provide a set of statistics collected when the
system was operating within the bounds set • Create a hypothesis about what has changed on
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the system
Tuning Steps for a Production Database
Implement and measure the change.
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1. Define the problem. 2. Examine the host system and Oracle statistics. 3. Consider some common performance errors. 4. Build a conceptual model. 5. 6. Check that the bottleneck has been resolved.
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Database Server Tuning Methodology
• Check alert log and trace files for errors. • Check the parameter file for any diagnostic or
inappropriate parameter setting.
•
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• Check memory, I/O, and CPU usage. Identify processes with resource usage anomalies. Identify and tune SQL statements that are heavy consumers of CPU or I/O.
Database Server Tuning Methodology
Tune response time: • Analyze system performance in terms of work done (CPU or service time) versus time spent waiting for work (wait time).
• Determine which component consumes the
greatest amount of the time.
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• Drill down to tune that component if appropriate.
Performance Versus Safety Trade-Offs
Frequent checkpointing
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Factors that affect performance: • Multiple control files • Multiple redo log members in a group • • Backing up datafiles • Performing archiving • Block check numbers • Number of concurrent users and transactions
Summary
List tuning problems
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In this lesson, you should have learned how to: • Create a good initial design • Define a tuning methodology • Perform production tuning • Establish quantifiable goals • • Decide between performance and safety
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