Re: Find / Kill Sessions Running Duplicate SQL with Duplicate Bind Var. Values?

From: MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_slac.stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:36:18 +0000
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Have you looked at implementing a results cache? I must admit that I never have; because, I was under the apparently mistaken belief it was an extra cost option. However, I just checked and the Oracle database licensing information posted for January 2016 says it’s included with the enterprise edition. I’m thinking the cache could help to identify the problem statements besides returning results directly from the cache. My knowledge of how the cache works is somewhat less than superficial

Ian MacGregor
SLAC National Accelerator Center

On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Jack Applewhite <jack.applewhite_at_austinisd.org<mailto:jack.applewhite_at_austinisd.org>> wrote:

Kellyn,

We have used mviews to substitute for some of our Vendor App's inefficient views. It's helped immensely when we can identify them. However, the duplicate SQL situations can occur in any number of the hundreds of batch reports executed in the SIS or queries from our home-grown Apps. It's just too many possibilities to cover in advance. Our Users keep coming up with new situations to create duplicate SQL sessions. That's why catching them "in the act" has been our goal.

Thanks.



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From: Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman <dbakevlar_at_gmail.com<mailto:dbakevlar_at_gmail.com>> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:40 PM
To: Jack Applewhite
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: Find / Kill Sessions Running Duplicate SQL with Duplicate Bind Var. Values?

Would you consider a plan B? :)

If these queries are so CPU intensive and are run so often to capture the data, is the data static enough to push to an mview or reporting table instead, which would control the rate at which it was called and simplify the query on the user end?

Just another thought....
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Jack Applewhite <jack.applewhite_at_austinisd.org<mailto:jack.applewhite_at_austinisd.org>> wrote: Chris,

The users of our Student Info. System are Teachers, Counselors, Administrators, Nurses, etc. - about 10,000 - 12,000. They don't have access to anything but the various Apps' GUIs. Anyway, training that many folks on what a database session, view, etc. is would be impossible.

Wolfgang,

Thanks for the info., but we're a School District and can't afford the add-on Packs.

I did look at the v$SQL_Bind_Capture view definition in Reference and, sure enough, it says "To limit the overhead, binds are captured at most every 15 minutes for a given cursor."

Still looking...



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From: Chris Stephens <cstephens16_at_gmail.com<mailto:cstephens16_at_gmail.com>> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:07 PM
To: Jack Applewhite
Cc: oracle-l; Stefan Koehler

Subject: Re: Find / Kill Sessions Running Duplicate SQL with Duplicate Bind Var. Values?

Would it be possible to give users a view into what sessions are active in the database they are connected to so they could see their IP or Username or something is active and hence no need to "click" again?

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Jack Applewhite <jack.applewhite_at_austinisd.org<mailto:jack.applewhite_at_austinisd.org>> wrote: Glad I ran the idea out to this excellent forum. The deal-breaker is that the values in v$SQL_Bind_Capture can be old. I thought they were up-to-date for each execution of the duplicate SQL. We've been using a modified (it shows SID, PID, and Username) version of the SQL Developer "Active Sessions" report to find and kill the offending sessions. We'll have to be more careful with that.

Kellyn's concern about our possibly annoying Management is appreciated, but we have their full support. They love it that we find ways to improve performance of our various systems, especially the key Student Information System. However, we can't be killing "innocent bystanders" because of stale bind variable values.

We'll have to find another method, so I'm still open to ideas. Thanks.



Jack C. Applewhite - Database Administrator Austin I.S.D. - MIS Department
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From: Stefan Koehler <contact_at_soocs.de<mailto:contact_at_soocs.de>> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 1:45 PM
To: oracle-l; Jack Applewhite
Subject: Re: Find / Kill Sessions Running Duplicate SQL with Duplicate Bind Var. Values?

Hi Jack,

> I'm trying to craft a query using v$Session and v$SQL_Bind_Capture to do this automatically, looking for duplicate SQL_IDs with duplicate bind
> variable values.

This will not work as V$SQL_BIND_CAPTURE does not provide the information you are looking for. For more information please check Jonathan's blog post and especially the comment section: https://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/bind-capture/

However in theory there is a technical solution for your request. The currently used bind variables can be dumped with an errorstack trace as it includes cursor information. Afterwards you have to grep the binds and compare for all the corresponding processes which are running the particular SQL. This is how it would technically work, but i strongly disagree with this approach / solution.

I strongly recommend Kellyn's approach to find and fix the root cause. It saves resources, time and makes the application more stable.

Best Regards
Stefan Koehler

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