RE: SQL Profiles and Performance
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:56:44 -0500
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With SQL Plan Baselines, I advise caution on setting optimizer_capture_sql_plan_baselines=TRUE. It works, but there can be subtle consequences.
Here is what I wrote on this topic, in an IOUG article I wrote 2 years ago:
optimizer_capture_sql_plan_baselines
This parameter causes new plans generated by the optimizer to be added to the baselines, either as accepted plans (for new SQL) or as non-accepted plans (for new plans for existing SQL). The default setting for this parameter is FALSE.
The decision to set this parameter to TRUE may have a more subtle impact. The first plan captured for each SQL statement will be created as an accepted baseline plan, while those that follow will be created as non-accepted. If the non-accepted plans have no opportunity to be evaluated, then the plan selection is not even "whatever seemed good at the time" (as it would have been without baselines being used) but is limited to "whatever seemed good the first time". This can be a particular problem when implementing new application functions with new SQL and new, growing tables: plans that perform well the first day, when new tables are practically empty, can rapidly lead to degraded performance.
If the decision is made to both use and capture baselines, then an EVOLVE process should be in place. This will allow new plans to become accepted plans if appropriate, and ensure that a satisfactory set of plans are available.
Since this parameter will cause creation of baseline plans, the advice of application vendors should be sought and carefully considered.
If a mixture of behaviors is desired (such as enabling capture for some applications in the database, while disabling it for others), the issue becomes more difficult. These parameters may only be set at the system level or at the session level; they can not be set by parsing schema, for example. To force different session-level configurations for different applications, login triggers may be a workable mechanism.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Dominic Brooks
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 3:50 PM
To: jed_walker_at_cable.comcast.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: SQL Profiles and Performance
Jed,
This concerns sql plan baselines not sql profiles - they both use the same underlying tables (sqlobj$, sqlobj$data, sqlobj$auxdata) but there are some significant differences. SQL Profiles are designed to provide statistical adjustments to the optimizer. Baselines are there to enforce a particular plan.
There were some nasty overheads related to the recursive merge of executions statistics into the tables mentioned above in version 11.2.0.2 but those are fixed in 11.2.0.3.
With that bug fixed, the overhead should be minimal. What happens is that the optimizer still does the optimisation steps it normally does but if the best (by cost) plan that it comes up with does not match the plan hash in the baseline then it will store the other plan for future evolution and revert to the baselined plan - the idea being that it gives you stability, let's you know if it has come up with something that looks better and then later can verify whether it actually is better or not in reality. This extra work does not come for free obviously, but really it should be minimal.
Bottom line - if these features are not causing any problems then if it were me then I'd stick with it for the moment, particularly as you only have a prod environment. (Having said that, having gone through the pain of the recursive merge issue in 11.2.0.2, I'm running with use=TRUE and captureúLSE so that I only have a select few baselined plans.)
Cheers,
Dominic
> From: Jed_Walker_at_cable.comcast.com
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: SQL Profiles and Performance
> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:06:53 +0000
>
> Has anyone had experience with whether using SQL Profiles
> (optimizer_capture_sql_plan_baselines= TRUE,
> optimizer_use_sql_plan_baselines=TRUE) is detrimental to overall
> performance. I'm talking about problems I've heard with plan changing
> unexpectedly, but with overall performance. We have a system that has
> this set and I'm wondering if it might perform better without it.
> (This is 11.2.0.3.0 6-node RAC on RedHat 5.6) What I'm wondering
> though is if SQL profiles functioanality has much overhead that might
> impact overall performance? This is OLTP and I wonder if things might
> be better without them? (I have production only so testing means
> getting maintenance and turning it off)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jed S. Walker, OCP
> Principal Engineer, Databases
> National Video Advanced Services
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