RE: DBA Humor (Twisted, sick sort of stuff...)

From: Sheehan, Jeremy <JEREMY.SHEEHAN_at_nexteraenergy.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:45:32 +0000
Message-ID: <939730CDCC52DA43AB03D00E4C678B9C3125AD_at_GOXSA1707.fplu.fpl.com>



Someone at my work was complaining of slowness in one of our DB's. Groaning with the lack of specificity, I went to go an check and found that the database was being hammered. Looking around Grid, I found one statement was causing the problem. It was a developer selecting from 8 different tables with no parameters. Yeah. Cartesian join on 8 tables.

Jeremy

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of rjamya Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:36 AM
To: Ram Raman
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: DBA Humor (Twisted, sick sort of stuff...)

What queries? LOL !! I said "consultants designed datamart". Which means they had the datamart, but, 1. no one had defined how it will be used 2. No one knew how to query it 3. No one could query it once it was loaded since they did so much of transformation in their (ahem) ETL process.

So, it was a datamart that loaded about 40m_ rows every night into a DB, which were promptly useless. Data retention was supposed to be 7 years, we fought hard to bring it down to 3. Mind this, it was a standalond db, with a DR, (they also wanted a HA as well as a GG replicated copy for "reporting" purpose). After listening to costs, only primary and HA remained.

I dont know the current status, everything else was running smoothly, except for this one.

Raj

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Ram Raman <veeeraman_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I am sure that speeded up the inserts on the tables with the concerned
> indexes.
>
> Did that speed up some of the queries?
>
>

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