Use the SQL Tuning Advisor for tuning SQL statements. Typically, you can run this advisor in response to an ADDM performance finding that recommends its use.

Additionally, you can run the SQL Tuning Advisor on the most resource-intensive SQL statements, referred to as top SQL, from the cursor cache or the AWR, as well as on a user-defined SQL workload.

To run the SQL Tuning Advisor do the following:

RAC Background Processes:

1. Lock Monitor Processes ( LMON)
2. Lock Monitor Services (LMS)
3. Lock Monitor Daemon Process ( LMD)
4. LCKn ( Lock Process)
5. DIAG (Diagnostic Daemon)

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KILLING SESSIONS IN ORACLE
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Author JP Vijaykumar
Date Jan 27th 2009
Modified Jan 29th 2009

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One of my procedure is taking long time to complete.

I have worked in a table with one timestamp field namely Actiondate. We have updated the sysdate value of inserting time to that field. It contains around 30 lakhs records.

I want to get the records which are inserted a particular day.

I run the following 2 queries..

select * from history
where trunc(actiondate) > trunc(sysdate)
order by docintno

OR

select * from history
where trunc(actiondate) > '01-dec-2009'
order by docintno

Both are taking too much time to give the results.

Both SQL Trace and TKPROF help to find the statistics of an SQL statement which could be used for query optimization.

Start Oracle SQLTRACE:

In Oracle, to start an SQLTRACE for the current session, execute:

ALTER SESSION SET SQL_TRACE = TRUE;

Stop Oracle SQLTRACE

In Oracle, to stop SQL tracing for the current session, execute:

ALTER SESSION SET sql_trace = false;

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I recently came across a document where the requirement was to convert from triple/double byte characters to single byte characters to send it for export complaince check as the export compliance system can accept only single byte characters.
Basically the useful thing about this was they were using IBM ICU project(an open source project) for this process,so in a way making it more open to developers.
These were the pros and cons for IBM identified by them.
Pros
- No interface needed (written in Java, integrable in Oracle)
- High level of portability, flexibility and scalability
- No int

The Adventure Begins

This article is a shortened version of the full article on Installing Oracle E-Business 12.1.1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 64-bit which can be read on Oracle-Developer.com.

I started by purchasing a brand new enterprise server without an OS. My first goal was to install the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Linux for the operating system and then to install the latest release of Oracle Database (11.2).

SQL for SAS Programmers - Introduction

What is SQL?

SQL stands for Structured Query Language and was designed for development and maintenance within a Database Management System (DBMS).

In my view, Display Manager commands didn’t get much attention of SAS programmers as they should be. It may be because...

1) SAS Documentation has very little information about how to use this facility.
2) Even Google searches aren’t helpful enough.

Here are the list of Display Manager Commands I know…

Using Manager commands we can open the dataset from any directory without touching the Explorer window…

Read more: http://studysas.blogspot.com/2009/11/sas-display-manager-commands.html