Bugs, Oracle

$deleted$ tablespace names bug

Jul 11, 2009 bugs, dba, partitioning by Jeff

This one turned out to be a an interesting bug the other day…

I did a simple select from DBA_TAB_PARTITIONS and noticed that some tablespace_names were of the form “_$deleted$n$m” where n and m are numbers. Slightly worrying, but at least the data was all present and correct, when I checked. I knew the DBA team had been doing some reorganisations the previous weekend, to recover some space, so I wondered if that was connected….it was, and after opening an SR, the DBA, Phil, found an explanation (from Oracle Note: 604648.1) and a resolution.

Reproducing the issue and the way to fix it, is simple, using this script…

DROP TABLESPACE old_tbs INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;

CREATE TABLESPACE new_tbs 
DATAFILE 'C:APPORACLEORADATAT111NEW_TBS.DBF'
SIZE 100M
ONLINE;

CREATE TABLESPACE old_tbs 
DATAFILE 'C:APPORACLEORADATAT111OLD_TBS.DBF'
SIZE 100M
ONLINE;

SELECT ts#,name FROM sys.ts$ WHERE name LIKE '%TBS';

CREATE TABLE jeff_test(col1 DATE NOT NULL
                      ,col2 NUMBER NOT NULL
                      ,col3 VARCHAR2(200) NOT NULL
                      )
TABLESPACE old_tbs
PARTITION BY RANGE(col1)
SUBPARTITION BY LIST(col2)
SUBPARTITION TEMPLATE(
 SUBPARTITION "S1" VALUES(1)
,SUBPARTITION "S2" VALUES(2)
)
(PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN(TO_DATE('31-DEC-2009','DD-MON-YYYY'))
,PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN(TO_DATE('31-DEC-2010','DD-MON-YYYY'))
)
/

SELECT partition_name,tablespace_name FROM dba_tab_partitions WHERE table_name='JEFF_TEST';
SELECT subpartition_name,tablespace_name FROM dba_tab_subpartitions WHERE table_name='JEFF_TEST';

ALTER TABLE jeff_test MOVE SUBPARTITION p1_s1 TABLESPACE NEW_TBS;
ALTER TABLE jeff_test MOVE SUBPARTITION p1_s2 TABLESPACE NEW_TBS;
ALTER TABLE jeff_test MOVE SUBPARTITION p2_s1 TABLESPACE NEW_TBS;
ALTER TABLE jeff_test MOVE SUBPARTITION p2_s2 TABLESPACE NEW_TBS;

DROP TABLESPACE old_tbs INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;
ALTER TABLESPACE new_tbs RENAME TO old_tbs;

SELECT partition_name,tablespace_name FROM dba_tab_partitions WHERE table_name='JEFF_TEST';
SELECT subpartition_name,tablespace_name FROM dba_tab_subpartitions WHERE table_name='JEFF_TEST';

ALTER TABLE jeff_test MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES FOR PARTITION p1 TABLESPACE old_tbs;
ALTER TABLE jeff_test MODIFY DEFAULT ATTRIBUTES FOR PARTITION p2 TABLESPACE old_tbs;

SELECT partition_name,tablespace_name FROM dba_tab_partitions WHERE table_name='JEFF_TEST';
SELECT subpartition_name,tablespace_name FROM dba_tab_subpartitions WHERE table_name='JEFF_TEST';

Which, when run in 11.1.0.6 on Windows 2003 Server 64 bit, gives:

DROP TABLESPACE old_tbs succeeded.
CREATE TABLESPACE succeeded.
CREATE TABLESPACE succeeded.
TS#                    NAME                           
---------------------- ------------------------------ 
9                      NEW_TBS                        
10                     OLD_TBS                        

2 rows selected
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CREATE TABLE succeeded.
PARTITION_NAME                 TABLESPACE_NAME                
------------------------------ ------------------------------ 
P1                             OLD_TBS                        
P2                             OLD_TBS                        

2 rows selected

SUBPARTITION_NAME              TABLESPACE_NAME                
------------------------------ ------------------------------ 
P1_S2                          OLD_TBS                        
P1_S1                          OLD_TBS                        
P2_S2                          OLD_TBS                        
P2_S1                          OLD_TBS                        

4 rows selected

ALTER TABLE jeff_test succeeded.
ALTER TABLE jeff_test succeeded.
ALTER TABLE jeff_test succeeded.
ALTER TABLE jeff_test succeeded.
DROP TABLESPACE old_tbs succeeded.
ALTER TABLESPACE new_tbs succeeded.
PARTITION_NAME                 TABLESPACE_NAME                
------------------------------ ------------------------------ 
P1                             _$deleted$10$0                 
P2                             _$deleted$10$0                 

2 rows selected

SUBPARTITION_NAME              TABLESPACE_NAME                
------------------------------ ------------------------------ 
P1_S2                          OLD_TBS                        
P1_S1                          OLD_TBS                        
P2_S2                          OLD_TBS                        
P2_S1                          OLD_TBS                        

4 rows selected

ALTER TABLE jeff_test succeeded.
ALTER TABLE jeff_test succeeded.
PARTITION_NAME                 TABLESPACE_NAME                
------------------------------ ------------------------------ 
P1                             OLD_TBS                        
P2                             OLD_TBS                        

2 rows selected

SUBPARTITION_NAME              TABLESPACE_NAME                
------------------------------ ------------------------------ 
P1_S2                          OLD_TBS                        
P1_S1                          OLD_TBS                        
P2_S2                          OLD_TBS                        
P2_S1                          OLD_TBS                        

4 rows selected

Notice that the $n in “_$deleted$n$m” is 10, which is the ts# of the OLD_TBS before the rename. The problem revolves around entries in TS$, when you rename tablespaces to names that have previously been used and then dropped, basically because the old entries are not removed from TS$.

Related references:
Bug Numbers:8291493, itself a duplicate of 5769963
Note: 604648.1

According to the SR and bug, it was noticed in 10.2.0.4 and is fixed in 10.2.0.5. We’ve reproduced it in 11.1.0.6 on various ports, (results above) and updated our SR, so I guess the fix might also find it’s way into 11.1.0.7, perhaps.

Oracle, SQL

No pruning for MIN/MAX of partition key column

Jun 25, 2009 bugs, cbo, code, dba, DW, partitioning, tuning by Jeff

Recently, I wanted to work out the maximum value of a column on a partitioned table. The column I wanted the maximum value for, happened to be the (single and only) partition key column. The table in question was range partitioned on this single key column, into monthly partitions for 2009, with data in all the partitions behind the current date, i.e. January through mid June were populated. There were no indexes on the table.

NOTE – I tried this on 10.2.04 (AIX) and 11.1.0 (Fedora 11) – the example below is from 11.1.0.

I’ll recreate the scenario here:

CREATE TABLESPACE tsp1
datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/T111/tsp1.dbf' size 100M 
autoextend off extent management local  uniform size 1m segment space management auto online
/
CREATE TABLESPACE tsp2
datafile '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/T111/tsp2.dbf' size 100M 
autoextend off extent management local  uniform size 1m segment space management auto online
/

DROP TABLE test PURGE
/
CREATE TABLE test(col_date_part_key DATE NOT NULL
,col2 VARCHAR2(2000) NOT NULL
)
PARTITION BY RANGE(col_date_part_key)
(PARTITION month_01 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-FEB-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp1
,PARTITION month_02 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-MAR-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_03 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-APR-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_04 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-MAY-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_05 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-JUN-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_06 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-JUL-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_07 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-AUG-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_08 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-SEP-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_09 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-OCT-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_10 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-NOV-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_11 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-DEC-2009′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
,PARTITION month_12 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(’01-JAN-2010′,’DD-MON-YYYY’)) TABLESPACE tsp2
)
/
REM Insert rows, but only up to 14-JUN-2009
INSERT INTO test(col_date_part_key,col2)
SELECT TO_DATE(’31-DEC-2008′,’DD-MON-YYYY’) + l
, LPAD(‘X’,2000,’X’)
FROM (SELECT level l FROM dual CONNECT BY level < 166)
/
COMMIT
/
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM test
/
SELECT MIN(col_date_part_key) min_date
, MAX(col_date_part_key) max_date
FROM test
/

This runs and gives the following output:

DROP TABLE test PURGE                                               
           *                                                        
ERROR at line 1:                                                    
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

DROP TABLESPACE tsp1 INCLUDING CONTENTS
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00959: tablespace ‘TSP1’ does not exist

DROP TABLESPACE tsp2 INCLUDING CONTENTS
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00959: tablespace ‘TSP2’ does not exist

Tablespace created.

Table created.

165 rows created.

Commit complete.

COUNT(*)
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MIN_DATE MAX_DATE
——— ———
01-JAN-09 14-JUN-09

Now, lets see what the plan looks like from AUTOTRACE when we run the following query to get the maximum value of COL_DATE_PART_KEY:

SQL> SET AUTOTRACE ON
SQL> SELECT MAX(col_date_part_key) min_date
  2  FROM   test                           
  3  /

MIN_DATE
———
14-JUN-09

Execution Plan
———————————————————-
Plan hash value: 784602781

———————————————————————————————
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop |
———————————————————————————————
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 9 | 99 (0)| 00:00:02 | | |
| 1 | SORT AGGREGATE | | 1 | 9 | | | | |
| 2 | PARTITION RANGE ALL| | 132 | 1188 | 99 (0)| 00:00:02 | 1 | 12 |
| 3 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | TEST | 132 | 1188 | 99 (0)| 00:00:02 | 1 | 12 |
———————————————————————————————

Note
—–
– dynamic sampling used for this statement

Statistics
———————————————————-
0 recursive calls
0 db block gets
320 consistent gets
51 physical reads
0 redo size
527 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
524 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
1 rows processed

SQL> SET AUTOTRACE OFF

It shows a full scan of all twelve partitions. I figured that the the plan for such a query would show a full table scan, of all partitions for that table – because, in theory, if all but the first partition were empty, then the whole table would have to be scanned to answer the query – and Oracle wouldn’t know at plan creation time, whether the data met this case, so it would have to do the full table scan to ensure the correct result.

What I thought might happen though, is that in executing the query, it would be able to short circuit things, by working through the partitions in order, from latest to earliest, and finding the first, non null, value. Once it found the first, non null, value, it would know not to continue looking in the earlier partitions, since the value of COL_DATE_PART_KEY couldn’t possibly be greater than the non null value already identified.

It doesn’t appear to have this capability, which we can check by taking one of the partitions offline and then rerunning the query, whereupon it complains that not all the data is present…

SQL> ALTER TABLESPACE tsp1 OFFLINE;

Tablespace altered.

SQL> SET AUTOTRACE ON
SQL> SELECT MAX(col_date_part_key) min_date
2 FROM test
3 /
SELECT MAX(col_date_part_key) min_date
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00376: file 6 cannot be read at this time
ORA-01110: data file 6: ‘/u01/app/oracle/oradata/T111/tsp1.dbf’

SQL> SET AUTOTRACE OFF

So, even though we know we could actually answer this question accurately, Oracle can’t do it as it wants to scan, unnecessarily, the whole table.

I did find a thread which somebody had asked about this on OTN, but all the responses were about workarounds, rather than explaining why this happens (bug/feature) or how it can be made to work in the way I, or the poster of that thread, think it, perhaps, should.

Can anyone else shed any light on this? If it’s a feature, then it seems like something that could be easily coded more efficiently by Oracle. The same issue would affect both MIN and MAX since both could be
approached in the same manner.

Installation, Oracle

Installing Oracle 11gR1 on a Fedora Core 10 64 bit VM

Jun 2, 2009 dba, errors, guides, linux, VMware by Jeff

Just a note, to myself more than anything, about what extra packages are required by a 64 bit installation of Fedora Core 10, when trying to install Oracle 11gR1.

The installation I undertook was on a FC10 64 bit VM running under VMWare Server 2.0 running on top of FC10 64 bit OS.

Tim, as usual, has a lovely guide which told me almost everything I needed to know, however the guide says “If you are performing the 64-bit installation, make sure both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries are installed.” rather than explicitly stating the packages for a 64 bit install. Until I tried to install Oracle 11gR1, I didn’t know what these were. The Oracle installer for 11g soon told me in the pre install checks it does, so I went about installing the following packages, in order:

glibc-2.9-3.i686.rpm
libaio-0.3.107-4.fc10.i386.rpm
libgcc-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
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That got me past the pre install checks of the Oracle installer and on to a successful install.

I’ve added the list to the comments on the guide Tim produced as well.

Benchmarking, TPC-H

Scripts for loading up DBGEN TPC-H data

Jul 30, 2008 benchmarking, code, dba, DW, tuning by Jeff

If you’re interested in creating a TPC-H schema for testing purposes, then the following scripts may be of use to you:

Unix Scripts:
Multi Load TPCH
Load TPCH Stream

SQL*Loader Control files:
REGION Table
NATION Table
SUPPLIER Table
CUSTOMER Table
PART Table
PARTSUPP Table
ORDERS Table
LINEITEM Table

You may wish to read and check them before you use them – they’re not exactly rocket science but they seem to do the job.

I have all the files in the same directory for simplicity sake.

I then use them to create a scale factor 1 target TPC-H schema using the following calls:

# “l” loads the REGION and NATION tables
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./multi_load_tpch.sh 1 s “tpch/tpch@test” 10

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./multi_load_tpch.sh 1 c “tpch/tpch@test” 10

# “p” loads the PART and PARTSUPP tables
./multi_load_tpch.sh 1 p “tpch/tpch@test” 10

# “o” loads the ORDERS and LINEITEM tables
./multi_load_tpch.sh 1 o “tpch/tpch@test” 10

Obviously, you need to change the connection string to match your environment.

Caveats:

Obviously, they are supplied as is – use at your own discretion and risk.
You need to have created the target schema tables and made sure they are empty as the SQL*Loader control files use APPEND.
Bear in mind that choosing too high a number of parallel streams (the last parameter in the calls) will overload your machine so try and balance it against the available system resources.

Bugs, issues or questions, please get in touch…enjoy.

Benchmarking, TPC-H

Creating a TPC-H schema with DBGEN on HP-UX

Jul 21, 2008 benchmarking, bugs, code, dba, tuning by Jeff

I wanted to try out this HammerOra product from Steve Shaw, both at work and on my box at home…but after playing with it at home, I realised that it takes quite some time to build even a small (scale factor 1) TPC-H schema…I know it runs serially, but I’m still not quite sure why it’s that slow (on my system that is), but Steve does say it can take a while and that you might wish to consider using the TPC utility DBGEN to generate and load the schema quicker…particularly if you use some manual parallelisation.

Given that I also need to use this tool to help with some benchmarking at work, I decided to try to get DBGEN to run on a HP-UX box today and had one or two problems which I managed to sort out. The machine in question is an RP8420 running HP-UX B.11.11.

DBGEN is a utility that allows you to create a series of flat files which contain the data for a TPC-H schema. You can then use SQL*Loader to load these into appropriately constructed tables in an Oracle database – any database actually…but I only care about Oracle of course 😉

The utility can be called with various parameters including making the target datasets in smaller “child” files which can be created in a manually parallelised fashion to speed the whole process up. You have to download the DBGEN reference data set from the TPC website (lower right hand side).

This reference data set contains the ANSI C source code which makes the DBGEN executable (and QGEN also…but more on that another day)…unfortunately it’s just the source code, so that means you need to compile it yourself…which of course leads to the first problem…that I know diddly squat about C…yeah I know, not very manly! Luckily I can sometimes follow instructions (which come with the reference data set)…

1. Copy makefile.suite to makefile
2. Edit makefile and make the following amendments (in red):

################
## CHANGE NAME OF ANSI COMPILER HERE
################
CC = gcc
# Current values for DATABASE are: INFORMIX, DB2, TDAT (Teradata)
# SQLSERVER, SYBASE
# Current values for MACHINE are: ATT, DOS, HP, IBM, ICL, MVS,
# SGI, SUN, U2200, VMS, LINUX, WIN32
# Current values for WORKLOAD are: TPCH
DATABASE= ORACLE
MACHINE = HP
WORKLOAD = TPCH

That’s it for the makefile.

Now, as I mentioned, the ORACLE database is not a listed database variant in the DBGEN C code – it’s got all the other popular RDBMS which I find quite bizarre…I’m sure there’s a reason, but I can’t think of one. To get around this, as per Chapter 5 in “Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on Linux” by Steve Shaw and Julian Dyke, I added a section to the tpcd.h for the ORACLE database:

#ifdef ORACLE
#define GEN_QUERY_PLAN “”
#define START_TRAN “”
#define END_TRAN “”
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I thought that was it – but it still would’t compile, giving the error:

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Looking at the config.h – and bearing in mind I’m no C programmer – it struck me as odd that all bar the HP machine section, had stuff about DSS_HUGE and 64 bits…so I took a punt and copied some lines (in red) from the IBM section into the HP one to see if it worked…and it did. The HP section now looks like this:

#ifdef HP
#define _INCLUDE_POSIX_SOURCE
#define STDLIB_HAS_GETOPT
#define DSS_HUGE long long
#define HUGE_FORMAT “%lld”
#define HUGE_DATE_FORMAT “%02lld”
#define RNG_A 6364136223846793005ull
#define RNG_C 1ull
#endif /* HP */

Typing make at the command prompt then compiles the code and produces the dbgen executable…which I then spent a few hours playing with to create a scale factor 1 TPC-H set of files.

My next problem was one of my own making really in that I copied the CREATE TABLE statements for the TPC-H target tables from HammerOra’ TCL script for TPC-H creation, but unfortunately, the column ordering is slightly different in those DDL statements as compared to the DBGEN output files…which meant that I created the tables OK, but since I’d copied the column ordering to make the SQL*Loader control files, I got errors when I tried to load some of the files as the column order is different in one or two cases.

I then downloaded the TPC-H specification document which has, amongst other things, the data model, from which I cross checked the column ordering of the data model against the columns in the output files and then managed to rerun the data in without any further issues.

Tomorrow I’ll try running HammerOra against the target TPC-H schema and make some shell scripts to try and automate most of the process so we can build different scale factor schemae and do so in a manually parallelised fashion – scripts the amiable Scotsman created for his parallel testing a while back should give me a good start with that.

Bugs, Oracle, SQL

Problem with _gby_hash_aggregation_enabled parameter

Apr 10, 2008 bugs, dba, tuning by Jeff

Here’s a tale about an Oracle initialisation parameter…and a lesson we should all take note of…

For three days, my colleagues in the support team on one of the warehouses I’m involved in, were struggling with a piece of code which was exhausting the available temp space and after trying everything they could think of, they asked me to take a look. I must admit I was a little baffled at first because the piece of code in question had been happily running for some time now and every time I’d run it, I’d never noticed that TEMP was anywhere near being exhausted so, whilst I could tell the process had some kind of problem, I was in the dark as to exactly what that problem was.

After trying to break down the large query into several smaller steps, I realised that it was an early step in the query that was exhibiting the problem of temp exhaustion – the step being a pivot of around 300 million measure rows into a pivot target table.

This process runs monthly and it had run without issue on all of the previous 20 occurrences and for roughly the same, if not more rows to pivot…so it didn’t appear to be the volume that was causing the problem.

There had been no changes in the code itself for many months and the current version of the code had been run successfully in previous months, so it didn’t appear to be a code fault.

I obtained the actual execution path for the statement whilst it was running and it looked reasonable, although looking at it, triggered a thought in my mind…what if something had changed in the database configuration?

Why would I get that thought from looking at the execution path?

Well, a while back, we had received some advice that a line in our init.ora as follows, should be changed to set the feature to TRUE instead of FALSE, so that the feature became active:

_gby_hash_aggregation_enabled = FALSE

This results in a line in the plan that reads:
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instead of

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The parameter was set to FALSE due to a known bug and the issues we’d seen with it, however the recent advice we’d received, indicated that the bug had been resolved at the version level we were on and that by enabling the feature – which enables GROUP BY and Aggregation using a hash scheme – we’d gain a performance boost for certain queries.

So, the DBA team researched the advice and it appeared to be the case, that the bug (4604970) which led to the disabling of the feature was fixed at our version level (10.2.0.3 on HP-UX). We duly turned on the feature in a pre production environment and ran it for a while without noticing any issues. We then enabled it in production and again, for a while, we’ve not noticed any issues…until now.

After a check back through the logs, it appeared that since the parameter was first enabled, the queries which were now failing, had not been run at all…they had only run prior to the parameter change…so with my suspicions aroused further, I disabled the feature at the session level and reran the process. It completed in a normal time frame and used a small amount of TEMP – hooray!

So, now we have to go back to support to try and understand if the original bug is not quite fixed or whether this is a different scenario…in any event, we’re going to disable the feature for now, even though we’re only getting problems with the feature on 2 processes out of perhaps thousands.

So, what’s the lesson to learn?

Well, quite simply, that you need to have a thorough audit of what configuration changes you’ve made together with a good audit of the processes you’ve run so that you can work out what has changed since the last time you successfully ran a process. This gives you a fighting chance of spotting things like the above.

Oracle, SQL

Tracking TEMP usage throughout the day

Feb 26, 2008 awr, code, dba by Jeff

I really wanted to do this via AWR, but I’ve not been able to find out if this kind of information is stored and, if it is, how I’d get access to it…maybe someone else knows…hint hint?!

I have various queries I run whilst I’m online and processes are running, but what I really wanted, was to know the usage profile throughout the day…so, given that I couldn’t find an AWR way of tracking our use of TEMP on a database, I figured I’d use a more klunky method…

DROP TABLE mgmt_t_temp_use_history PURGE
/

CREATE TABLE temp_use_history(snap_date      DATE         NOT NULL
                             ,sid            NUMBER       NOT NULL
                             ,segtype        VARCHAR2(9)  NOT NULL
                             ,qcsid          NUMBER       NULL
                             ,username       VARCHAR2(30) NULL
                             ,osuser         VARCHAR2(30) NULL
                             ,contents       VARCHAR2(9)  NULL
                             ,sqlhash        NUMBER       NULL
                             ,sql_id         VARCHAR2(13) NULL
                             ,blocks         NUMBER       NULL
                             )
PCTFREE 0
COMPRESS
NOLOGGING
/
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX tuh_pk ON
temp_use_history(snap_date,sid,segtype)
PCTFREE 0
COMPRESS
NOLOGGING
/
ALTER TABLE temp_use_history ADD CONSTRAINT tuh_pk PRIMARY
KEY(snap_date,sid,segtype)
USING INDEX
/

DECLARE
  l_program_action VARCHAR2(2000);
  l_27477 EXCEPTION;
  PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(l_27477,-27477); BEGIN
  BEGIN
    DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_SCHEDULE(
      schedule_name   => 'MINUTELY_5M'
     ,start_date      => SYSDATE
     ,repeat_interval => 'FREQ=MINUTELY;INTERVAL=5'
     ,comments        =>'Daily schedule to run a job every five minutes.'
                                  );
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN l_27477 THEN
      NULL;  -- Ignore if the schedule exists
  END;

  l_program_action :=                   'DECLARE';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  l_date DATE := SYSDATE; ';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'BEGIN';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  INSERT /*+ APPEND */ INTO temp_use_history(snap_date,sid,qcsid,username,osuser,contents,seg
type,sqlhash,sql_id,blocks)';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  SELECT l_date,s.sid,ps.qcsid,s.username,s.osuser,su.contents,su.segtype,su.sqlh
ash,su.sql_id,sum(su.blocks)';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  FROM   v$sort_usage su';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  ,      v$session s';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  ,      v$px_session ps';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  WHERE  s.sid=ps.sid(+)';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  AND    s.saddr =
su.session_addr';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  AND    s.serial# =
su.session_num';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  GROUP BY s.sid,ps.qcsid,s.username,s.osuser,su.contents,su.segtype,su.sqladdr,su.
sqlhash,su.sql_id;';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'  COMMIT; ';
  l_program_action := l_program_action||'END;';

  BEGIN
    DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_PROGRAM(
      program_name => 'SNAP_TEMP_USAGE'
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     ,program_action => l_program_action
     ,enabled        => TRUE
     ,comments       => 'Program to snap the temp usage into TEMP_USE_HISTORY'
                                 );
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN l_27477 THEN
      NULL;  -- Ignore if the program exists
  END;

  BEGIN
    DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB(
      job_name      => 'JOB_SNAP_TEMP_USAGE'
     ,program_name  => 'SNAP_TEMP_USAGE'
     ,schedule_name => 'MINUTELY_5M'
     ,enabled       => TRUE
     ,auto_drop     => FALSE
     ,comments      => 'Job to snap the temp usage into TEMP_USE_HISTORY'
                             );
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN l_27477 THEN
      NULL;  -- Ignore if the job exists
  END;
END;
/

I can now run queries against the TEMP_USE_HISTORY table to show how much TEMP has been used, when, by whom and for what use, e.g.

SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

  1  select snap_date,round(sum(blocks)*32/1024/1024) gb
  2  from temp_use_history
  3  where snap_date > sysdate-1
  4  group by snap_date
  5  having round(sum(blocks)*32/1024/1024) > 50
  6* order by 1
SQL> /

SNAP_DATE                    GB
-------------------- ----------
26-FEB-2008 16:12:25         57
26-FEB-2008 16:17:25         65
26-FEB-2008 16:22:25         74
26-FEB-2008 16:27:25         86
26-FEB-2008 16:32:25         95
26-FEB-2008 16:37:25        107
26-FEB-2008 16:42:25        121
26-FEB-2008 16:47:25        127
26-FEB-2008 16:52:25        147
26-FEB-2008 16:57:25        160
26-FEB-2008 17:02:25        162
26-FEB-2008 17:07:25        179
26-FEB-2008 17:12:25        196
26-FEB-2008 17:17:25        208
26-FEB-2008 17:22:25        217
26-FEB-2008 17:27:25        233
26-FEB-2008 17:32:25        241
26-FEB-2008 17:37:25        251
26-FEB-2008 17:42:25        257
26-FEB-2008 17:47:25        262
26-FEB-2008 17:52:25        264
26-FEB-2008 17:57:25        267
26-FEB-2008 18:02:25        201
27-FEB-2008 00:27:25         59
27-FEB-2008 00:32:25         60
27-FEB-2008 00:37:25         69
27-FEB-2008 01:12:25         57
27-FEB-2008 02:22:25         53
27-FEB-2008 09:57:25         51

29 rows selected.

From the above, I can see that, during the last twenty four hours on the database in question, there was reasonably heavy use of the TEMP area between 4pm and 6pm yesterday, and that the load peaked at approximately 267Gb.

General

CALIBRATE_IO Poll

Sep 25, 2007 dba, poll, tuning by Jeff

After Doug’s comment on my earlier blog on CALIBRATE_IO, and after seeing Kevin using Mr Poll to do a RAC poll, I’ve now created a poll for the results people are getting from this CALIBRATE_IO routine in 11g.

If you’d like to contribute please visit using the following link:

Oracle 11g CALIBRATE_IO Results
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Thanks

Benchmarking, Oracle, SQL

11g IO Calibration tool

Sep 25, 2007 dba, errors, tuning by Jeff

After reading how inadequate Doug was feeling over his IO subsystem, I decided to see how quick mine was…not that we’re getting into a “mine is better than yours” game, but rather to see how mine stacks up against Doug’s, bearing in mind his is a 5 disk stripe natively attached to his machine (I’m assuming) and mine is a logical disk attached to a VMWare machine…although admittedly, the PC underneath this logical disk is running, motherboard based, RAID striping, over two physical SATA disks…I just figured it would be interesting to compare.

Obviously, any experiment that goes flawlessly according to a preconceived plan is:

1. Boring
2. Less educational
3. Not normally one I’ve done – mine always have problems it seems!

I ran the calibration on my VMWare based OpenSuse 10 linux with Oracle 11g and it immediately came up with a problem:

SQL> @io
SQL> SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
SQL> DECLARE
2    lat  INTEGER;
3    iops INTEGER;
4    mbps INTEGER;
5  BEGIN
6  -- DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO (, , iops, mbps, lat);
7     DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO (2, 10, iops, mbps, lat);
8
9     DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('max_iops = ' || iops);
10     DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('latency  = ' || lat);
11     dbms_output.put_line('max_mbps = ' || mbps);
12  end;
13  /
DECLARE
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-56708: Could not find any datafiles with asynchronous i/o capability
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_RMIN", line 453
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER", line 1153
ORA-06512: at line 7

Of course, consulting the manual led me to run this query:

SELECT name, asynch_io
FROM v$datafile f,v$iostat_file i
WHERE f.file#        = i.file_no
AND   filetype_name  = 'Data File'
/

which gave:
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SQL> /

NAME                                               ASYNCH_IO
-------------------------------------------------- ---------
/home/oracle/oradata/su11/system01.dbf             ASYNC_OFF
/home/oracle/oradata/su11/sysaux01.dbf             ASYNC_OFF
/home/oracle/oradata/su11/undotbs01.dbf            ASYNC_OFF
/home/oracle/oradata/su11/users01.dbf              ASYNC_OFF
/home/oracle/oradata/su11/example01.dbf            ASYNC_OFF

…or in other words no asynchronous IO available – as the error message had said.

After altering the filesystemio_options parameter to “set_all” and bouncing the instance, a second run of the calibration process seemed to work fine…

SQL> @io
SQL> SET ECHO ON
SQL> SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
SQL> DECLARE
2    lat  INTEGER;
3    iops INTEGER;
4    mbps INTEGER;
5  BEGIN
6  -- DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO (, , iops, mbps, lat);
7     DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO (2, 10, iops, mbps, lat);
8
9     DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('max_iops = ' || iops);
10     DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('latency  = ' || lat);
11     dbms_output.put_line('max_mbps = ' || mbps);
12  end;
13  /
max_iops = 72
latency  = 13
max_mbps = 26

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

So,my figures are considerably lower than those Doug achieved:

max_iops = 112
latency  = 8
max_mbps = 32

…but not too bad I guess considering the fact that mine is a VM and the hardware I’m running is more humble…no seriously, size does not matter!

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