Oracle Performance Survival Guide - Scripts

Here you can obtain the scripts and examples from Oracle Performance Survival Guide by Guy Harrison.

An archive containing the full set of scripts can be downloaded here.  Individual files can be downloaded below.

The archive contains both utility scriptsand all of the SQL files that I used to create various test loads while writing the book.  The utility scripts are described in the index.html file contained within the archive.  These scripts provide reports on various aspects of database health and performance.

The rest of the SQL files are provided as is, and without descriptions.  You might find them useful if you are trying to replicate my workloads.

Some of the scripts will only work if you install some packages, views and permissions.  In particular, the OPSG_PKG package provides an ability to generate short term delta and rate reports against the time model and wait interface.  See installation, below, for instructions.

I hope you find these scripts - and my book - useful.  If you have any problems please contact me at guy.a.harrison@gmail.com.  

Regards,

Guy Harrison

Installation 

Many scripts can be run without any installation providing that the user has access to V$ views.  However, a few require specialized views and that the OPSG_PKG be installed.  To install the package:

1. Open a command prompt within the "install" directory
2. execute either install_opsg.bat (Windows) or install_opsg.sh (Linux/Unix)
3. Respond to the prompts

Here is an example session:

`C:\tmp\opsg\install>install_opsg`

C:\tmp\opsg\install>sqlplus /nolog @install_opsg

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Thu Sep 10 10:55:02 2009

Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Enter password for the (new) OPSG user:opsg
Enter SYS password:
Enter TNSNAMES entry:g11r2ga

The script creates a user OPSG which has privileges to run all of the scripts and which has appropriate permissions.  You can modify the script if you want to install a different user.   You do need the SYS password to install the user.

Extending the SH schema

I found the data volumes in Oracle's SH schema too low to illustrate some of the SQL tuning principles.  The script extend_sh_schema.sql in the scripts directory will add about 2 million rows to the SALES and COSTS tables.   These updates are applied directly to the SH schema.  

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Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade

p 41 topsql1.sql Top 10 cached sql statements by elapsed time

p 58 loginTrigger.sql Example of a login trigger that activates SQL trace

p 70

topWaits.sql

Non-idle wait times sorted by time waited

p 73

timeModelSimple.sql

Time model unioned with wait data to show waits combined with CPU timings

p 55

CurrentSessionTraceStatus.sql

Show the full name and path of the trace file for the current session

Chapter 5: Indexing and Clustering

p 122

monitoringOn.sql

Turn on monitoring for all indexes

p 122

vobject.sql

Show usage statistics for indexes

p 133

checkPlanCache.sql

Report on indexes that are not found in any cached execution plan

Chapter 6: Application Design and Implementation

p 157

force_matching.sql

Identify SQLs that are identical other than for literal values (Force matching candidates)

Chapter 7: Optimizing the Optimizer

p 194

ses_optimizer.sql

Show optimizer parameters in effect for the curren session

p 198

disableStats.sql

Disable automatic statistics collection

Chapter 11: Sorting Grouping and Set Operations

p 332

sql_workarea.sql

Show statistics onsort and hash workareas (from V$SQL_WORKAREA)

Chapter 12: Using and Tuning PL/SQL

p 355

plsqltime_sys.sql

Query to reveal the overhead of PLSQL within the database

p 356

cachedPlsql.sql

Show statements in the cache with PLSQL component and show pct of time spent in PLSQL

p 357

queryProfiler.sql

Report on data held in the PLSQL_PROFILER tables

p 360

hrpof_qry.sql

Query agains the DBMSHP (hierarchical profiler) tables

Chapter 13: Parallel SQL

p 414

px_session.sql

Show real time view of current parallel executions

p 413

tqstat2.sql

Example of using v$pq_tqstat to reveal PQO workload distribution

p 422

rac_pqo2.sql

Example of using v$pq_tqstat to show inster-instance parallel in RAC

Chapter 15: Lock Contention

p 460

lock_type.sql

Show definition of all lock codes

p 461

v_my_locks.sql

View definition that will show all locks held by the current user

p 467

lock_delta_qry.sql

Show lock waits compared to other waits and CPU over a short time period

p 466

lock_wait_events.sql

Show lock waits compared to other waits and CPU

p 468

ash_locks.sql

Show lock wait information from Active Session History (ASH)

p 468

awr_locks.sql

Show lock wait information from Active Workload Repository (AWR)

p 470

locking_sql.sql

Show SQLs with the highest lock waits

p 471

segment_stats.sql

Show segments with the highest lock waits

p 472

application_module_wait.sql

Show SQLs for a particular module with lock waits

p 472

session_lock_waits.sql

Show sessions with a specific USERNAME and their lock waits

p 476

blockers.sql

Simple blocking locks script

p 477

lock_tree.sql

Lock tree built up from V$SESSION

p 477

show_session_waits.sql

Blocking row level locks at the session level

p 478

wait_chains.sql

Lock tree built up from V$wait_chains

Chapter 16: Latch and Mutex contention

p 494

latch_waits.sql

Latch/mutex waits compared to other non-idle waits and to CPU

p 496

latch_qry.sql

"Latch statistics - gets

p 497

ash_latch.sql

Latch statistics from Active Session History (ASH)

p 495

latch_delta_qry.sql

Latch/mutex waits over a short duration compared to other waits

p 497

latching_sql.sql

SQLs with the highest concurrency waits (possible latch/mutex-related)

p 500

force_matching.sql

SQLs not using bind variables - possibly causing library cache mutex contention

p 499

libcache.sql

Library cache statistics

p 503

cbc_config.sql

"Number of Cache Buffers Chains latches & number of buffers covered

p 504

cbc_blocks.sql

Blocks with the highest touch counts and latches involved

p 505

rowcache_latches.sql

Rowcache latch statistics

p 510

latch_class.sql

Adjusting spin count for an individual latch class

p 511

latch_class_qry.sql

Query to show latch class configuration

Chapter 17: Shared Memory Contention

p 519

iostat_file.sql

Status of ansynchronous IO

p 521

flash_size.sql

Size of the flashback log buffer

p 526

waitstat.sql

Buffer busy waits by buffer type

p 526

busy_segments.sql

Buffer busy waits by segment

Chapter 18: Buffer Cache Tuning

p 538

temporary_direct.sql

Direct path IO and buffered IO

p 540

buffer_pool_objects.sql

Segments cached in the buffer pools

p 541

hit_rate.sql

"""hit rates"" for direct and cached IOs "

p 542

hit_rate_delta.sql

"""hit rates"" calculated over a time interval "

p 544

sql_miss_rates.sql

logical and physical IO for specific SQLs

p 546

buffer_pool_stats.sql

Buffer pool IO statistics

p 547

db_cache_advice1.sql

Query on V$DB_CACHE_ADVICE

p 548

db_cache_hist.sql

DB cache advise shown as a histogram

p 552

sga_dynamic_components.sql

Query on V$SGA_DYNAMIC_COMPONENTS

p 551

sga_resize_ops.sql

Query on V$SGA_RESIZE_OPS

Chapter 19: Optimizing PGA Memory

p 562

pga_parameters.sql

PGA parameters and configuration from v$pgastat

p 566

direct_temp_waits.sql

temporary direct path IO compared to CPU and other non-idle waits

p 565

top_pga.sql

Top consumers of PGA memory

p 567

direct_io_delta_view_qry.sql

Direct path temp IO over a time interval

p 570

sql_workarea.sql

SQL workarea statistics

p 571

pga_target_advice.sql

PGA target advice report

p 572

pga_advice_hist.sql

PGA target advice histogram

Chapter 20: Other Memory Management Topics

p 578

io_waits.sql

IO wait breakdown

p 581

io_time_delta_view_qry.sql

IO wait breakdown over a time period

p 582

direct_path_trace_stats.pl

Perl script to calculate average direct path IO time from a trace file

p 583

pga_target_time.sql

PGA target converted to elapsed times

p 584

overall_memory_advice.sql

Combined (PGA+SGA) memory advice report for 10g

p 586

overall_memory11g.sql

Combined (PGA+SGA) memory advice report for 11g

p 590

memory_dynamic_components.sql

V$MEMORY_DYNAMIC_COMPONENTS report

p 590

memory_resize_ops.sql

V$MEMORY_RESIZE_OPS report

p 591

memory_target_advice.sql

Memory target advice report

p 593

kmgsbsmemadv.sql

Query against X$KMSGSBSMEMADV (basis of V$MEMORY_TARGET_ADVICE)

p 594

memory_parms.sql

Report on memory related parameters

p 599

result_cache_statistics.sql

Result set cache statistics

p 600

rscache_hit_rate.sql

Result set cache efficiency

p 600

sql_cache_stats.sql

Result set cache statistics for SQL statements

p 601

rc_dependencies.sql

Result set cache dependencies

p 605

shared_pool_advice.sql

Shared pool advisory

Chapter 21: Disk IO Tuning fundamentals

p 617

io_waits.sql

IO waits compared to other waits and CPU

p 618

io_waits_delta.sql

IO waits reported for an interval

p 619

iostat_file.sql

Summary report from v$iostat_file

p 620

iostat_function.sql

Summary report of v$iostat_function

p 622

filestat.sql

Summary report from v$filestat

p 622

filemetric.sql

Short term IO statistics from v$filemetric

p 624

calibrate_io.sql

PL/SQL reoutine to calibrate IO

p 623

file_histogram.sql

IO service time histogram

p 625

dba_rsrc_io_calibrate.sql

Query IO calibration data

p 634

lgwr_size.sql

Size of an average redo log IO

p 636

log_file_waits.sql

Report of redo log related waits

p 637

log_history.sql

Log switch rates from v$log_history

Chapter 22: Advanced IO techniques

p 645

diskgroup_performance.sql

ASM diskgroup IO throughput and service time

p 646

asm_disk_performance.sql

ASM disk-level throughput and service time

p 647

asm_operations.sql

ASM rebalance operations in progress

p 647

asm_files.sql

ASM file level IO statistics

p 654

asm_templates.sql

List all ASM templates

Chapter 23: Optimizing RAC

p 669

top_level_waits.sql

Break down of top level WAITCLASS waits

p 670

cluster_waits.sql

Break out of cluster waits compared to other categories

p 671

rac_waits_delta.sql

RAC waits over an interval of time

p 673

avg_latency.sql

Global cache latency report

p 674

latency_delta.sql

Global cache latency over a time period

p 675

ksxpia.sql

Private interconnect IP address

p 677

gc_blocks_lost.sql

Lost blocks report

p 681

lms_latency.sql

LMS latency breakdown

p 682

flush_time.sql

redo log flush frequency and wait times

p 684

balance.sql

Cluster balance report

p 685

rac_balance_delta.sql

Cluster balance over a time period

p 689

service_stats.sql

Report on service workload by instance

p 693

gc_miss_rate.sql

"Global cache ""miss rate"" by instance "

p 694

top_gc_segments.sql

Segments with the highest Global Cache activity