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Oracle Database
A slow system needs a shortlist of statements consuming time, with execution count kept in view. Cached totals are not a historical workload report.
Read article : Find cached SQL with high total elapsed timeOracle Database
Excessive logical reads can consume CPU even when storage latency is low. Inspect per-child buffer gets with execution counts.
Read article : Find logical-read-heavy Oracle SQLOracle Database
Slow read-heavy work may reflect a large intended scan, poor access path or storage latency. Start by identifying the cached statements involved.
Read article : Inspect SQL with high physical-read totalsOracle Database
A hypothetical plan may differ from the one the application executed. Display the correct cached child cursor when investigating a regression.
Read article : Inspect a cached execution plan without running EXPLAIN PLANOracle Database
A single SQL ID can have many children because its executions cannot share one cursor environment. Collect the mismatch reasons before changing caches.
Read article : Investigate many child cursors for one SQL statementOracle Database
A parse storm can increase CPU and shared-pool pressure. Capture related counters twice rather than diagnosing from one lifetime total.
Read article : Measure Oracle parse activity as interval deltasOracle Database
An application may issue nearly identical statements with values embedded in the text, reducing reuse and increasing parsing work.
Read article : Detect many literal variants of Oracle SQLOracle Database
An optimizer can estimate poorly when statistics no longer represent the data. Inspect relevant table and partition statistics before gathering everything.
Read article : Check optimizer statistics for the actual table and partitionOracle Database
A query may stop using an expected index because of its state, visibility, column order or changed selectivity. Inspect metadata before rebuilding.
Read article : Check whether an index is valid and visible to the optimizerOracle Database
Different bind values may have very different selectivity. An average execution time can hide that only a narrow input range is slow.
Read article : Investigate bind-sensitive cursor behaviorOracle Database
A shared-memory allocation error can involve fragmentation, workload churn or a specific pool. Preserve the exact pool and allocation details.
Read article : ORA-04031: investigate the named shared-memory allocation failureOracle Database
A process can fail allocation because of OS limits, address-space constraints or excessive private memory use. Distinguish it from SGA allocation errors.
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