Database Administration & Architecture

Hi, I’m Arvind Toorpu.

I’m a Database Admin/Architect with 14+ years managing Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud (AWS/RDS) systems. This blog covers the cloning, tuning, security, and migration work that keeps databases running.

Arvind Toorpu
  • TRIGGER TO GET SERVERERROR ON DATABASE

    Lets create a trigger that will log all the errors in the database:It is better to create this trigger under SYS or DBA user’s so that you don’t have to grant all permission if you have to grant permissions separately. ——————————————————–—  DDL for Trigger AFTER_ERROR——————————————————–   CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER “AFTER_ERROR”     AFTER SERVERERROR…

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  • Find index skewed, rebuild

    Find index skewed, rebuild                                                 Summary It is important to periodically examine your indexes to determine if they have become skewed and might need to be rebuilt. When an index is skewed, parts of an index are accessed more frequently than others. As a result, disk contention may occur, creating a…

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  • Which SQL are doing a lot of disk I/O

    Which SQL are doing a lot of disk I/O                                                 Which SQL are doing a lot of disk I/O SELECT * FROM (SELECT SUBSTR(sql_text,1,500) SQL, ELAPSED_TIME, CPU_TIME, disk_reads, executions, disk_reads/executions “Reads/Exec”, hash_value,address FROM V$SQLAREA WHERE ( hash_value, address ) IN ( SELECT DISTINCT HASH_VALUE, address FROM v$sql_plan WHERE DISTRIBUTION IS NOT…

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  • Disk I/O

    Disk I/O Script Datafiles Disk I/O Tablespace Disk I/O Which segments have top Logical I/O & Physical I/O Which SQL are doing a lot of disk I/O

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  • Which segments have top Logical I/O & Physical I/O

    Which segments have top Logical I/O & Physical I/O                                                 Summary Do you know which segments in your Oracle Database have the largest amount of I/O, physical and logical? This SQL helps to find out which segments are heavily accessed and helps to target tuning efforts on these segments: SELECT ROWNUM…

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  • Tablespace Disk I/O

    Tablespace Disk I/O                                                Summary The Physical design of the database reassures optimal performance for DISK I/O. Storing the datafiles in different filesystems (Disks) is a good technique to minimize disk contention for I/O. How I/O is spread per Tablespace SELECT T.NAME, SUM(Physical_READS) Physical_READS, ROUND((RATIO_TO_REPORT(SUM(Physical_READS)) OVER ())*100, 2) || ‘%’ PERC_READS,…

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  • Datafiles Disk I/O

    Datafiles Disk I/O                                             Summary The Physical design of the database reassures optimal performance for DISK I/O. Storing the datafiles in different filesystems (Disks) is a good technique to minimize disk contention for I/O. How I/O is spread per datafile SELECT NAME, phyrds Physical_READS, ROUND((RATIO_TO_REPORT(phyrds) OVER ())*100, 2)|| ‘%’ PERC_READS, phywrts…

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  • Current waiting events Summary

    Current waiting events  Summary The first and most important script about OWI, is where current sessions waiting SELECT a.SID, b.serial#, b.status, p.spid, b.logon_time, a.event, l.NAME latch_name, a.SECONDS_IN_WAIT SEC, b.sql_hash_value, b.osuser, b.username, b.module, b.action, b.program, a.p1,a.p1raw, a.p2, a.p3, –, b.row_wait_obj#, b.row_wait_file#, b.row_wait_block#, b.row_wait_row#, ‘alter system kill session ‘ || ”” ||…

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  • Db file sequential read

    Db file sequential read                                                 Summary The db file sequential read wait event means that Oracle is waiting while doing a single-block I/O read. This is the case when reading an index. Like all wait events the columns P1, P2, P3 give us the information needed to diagnose the waiting. Tip:…

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  • DELETE or CLEANUP failed export Jobs

     Failed Jobs can be verified by using the following sql: sql > select owner_name,job_name,operation,job_mode,state,attached_sessions from dba_datapump_jobs;   Check the state (status ) of the Jobs all the failed Jobs,they will show as not running for failed once. DROP MASTER TABLE Since  the  above  jobs  are  orphaned or  not running  won’t…

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