RE: 3rd Party Database health check

  • From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:03:02 +0000

That's not a health check, you did stuff. :(=20

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> From: mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> Sent: 07 February 2004 09:58
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> Cc: jvd@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 3rd Party Database health check
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> Can't have enough 9's there :). I was at a customer site the=20
> other day=20
> (a Siebel implementation, but that's not the point), and it was=20
> beautiful to watch:
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> First they showed me OEM displaying a BCHR of 99.99. Yet they had a=20
> problem...
> Then they showed me that a certain piece of SQL took 452=20
> seconds to run.=20
> It had to run every few minutes, so that was a problem.
> Then the IT director informed me that they were about to buy=20
> four GB RAM=20
> on top of the four they already had.
> The IT manager told me they were also going to buy four more disks=20
> because they had four empty slots in the cabinet.
> Then Johannes looked at the query and brought it down to 18=20
> seconds by=20
> moving stuff around and adding a hint, and down to 6 seconds=20
> by adding=20
> an index.
> They are going to buy the disks anyway, but they won't buy=20
> the extra RAM=20
> just yet. Oh well.
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> Johannes - remember to bill the customer, by the way, will you?
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> Mogens
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> Kirtikumar Deshpande wrote:
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> >Sure we monitored that too....=20
> >.... but the warning/alarm threshold was a bit low.... (like=20
> 2 or 5%).=20
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> >:)=20
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> >- Kirti=20
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> >--- Mladen Gogala <mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >>On 02/04/2004 01:28:58 PM, Kirtikumar Deshpande wrote:
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> >>>From all those 60-100 "database parameters" Patrol=20
> monitored, we had
> >>>found about 10 or so to be of
> >>>any help to the DBA with Oracle 7 and 8, mainly.
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> >>You were supposed to monitor the buffer hit ratio, don't=20
> you know that?
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