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Oracle SQL*Net Wait Events

Introduction Unfortunately, what Oracle calls “Network Waits” most often have little to do with Network but and almost exclusively to do...

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Oracle : buffer busy wait

Oracle 10 and 11 Buffer Busy Waits usually happen on Oracle 10 and 11 mainly because of insert contention into tables or Indexes. There...

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Wait Metrics vs Wait Events

Here is a quick table comparison of different types of metrics views The first line of the table is the classic wait event and statistic...

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Enqueue – PK, FK or Bitmap Index problem?

Primary/Unique Key: inserting a unique key when someone else has already inserted that key but not committed Foreign Key: Inserting a...

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Oracle I/O latency monitoring

db file sequential read db file scattered read log file parallel write direct path reads direct path reads temp Of course it would be...

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CURSOR_SHARING : a picture is worth a 1000 words

Anyone who has been around Oracle performance over the years knows the grief that hard parsing SQL queries can cause on highly concurrent...

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Where to begin with Oracle and SQL

Here is my list and everything on this list is excellent. I’m sure I missed a few good ones, but maybe people can add them in the...

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Oracle time units in V$ views

Oracle has a crazy mix of units of time in various v$ views seconds centi-seconds milliseconds microseconds Some are straight forward...