Hi Listers, We are on RDBMS version 11.2.0.4 of Oracle exadata and are
migrating from exadata X5 to X8 and want to perform a basic performance
test on the new X8. We don't currently have the time and flexibility to
perform a real application testing(RAT) test which would have been a full
fledged test of the exact behaviour of the application on X8. So we want
to go for the SPA(sql performance analyzer) option as a quick alternate. I
have few questions around SPA testing.
1)In the SPA test I am seeing we don't have an option to have the DML/DDl
tested on the current 11.2 version.So is there any alternate way to
achieve/test this?
2) And also after capturing the sql tuning sets from the AWR , it's asking
to run, create and analyze tasks on the current database which is again
going to take time as it will run the SELECT part of the
statements(DML/DDL) behind the scene. So my question was as we already have
the AWR data in the current database why i have to again run it and that is
going to take time and resources on the current production database? is it
simply possible to capture the sql tuning set from current production for a
certain period (say 3-4hrs) and then just export and import it to the new
X8 database and then run it there and compare and see the difference in
performance?
Regards
Lok
