Impacting users without Enterprise Manager and Spotlight is not that easy. But generating AWR (or Statspack) reports is always a good idea to find out what's going on - by means of how resources are wasted, and which SQL is responsible for the worst. What I do a lot is: http://www.usn-it.de/index.php/2012/09/10/effecting-oracle-miracles-with-standard-edition-and-statspack-without-awr/ But with Diagnostics Pack enabled, using ASH is great too. Regards Martin Klier Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb: > I have come to the realization I've become a little too dependent upon Grid > Control for giving me a "quick overview" of system performance. Those > colorful graphs are like DBA crack ;) > So let's say Grid is down or I'm in an environment where Grid is not > available. I'm pretty good with SQL but I still like that overview that Grid > gives me where I can quickly identify "blips" related to performance. > > I'm curious what tools/scripts you guys have in your toolboxes to give you a > quick overview when your favorite tool is unavailable. I have several tools > in my toolbox as well, but nothing quite as good as Grid when it comes to > giving me that "big picture" view to quickly see issues that are impacting > users. > > I do have Spotlight available but we haven't configured it and I'm not > entirely sure I want to go that route as it adds objects to the database. I > have Toad as well but I'm really thinking along the lines of SQL scripts > would be handy. > > Thoughts? > > Chris D. Taylor > Oracle DBA > Parallon ITS > 6640 Carothers Parkway > Franklin, TN 37067 > P: 615.344-8419 > christopher.taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx > www.parallon.com<http://www.parallon.com> > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Usn's IT Blog for Oracle and Linux http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l