Re: Oracle metrics - any useful ideas on what to track?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:19:59 +0100
Message-ID: <3b3b4b2a$0$8506$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

well what do they care about?

Usually folk care about uptime, which should be easy to document if you've kept stats and performance which is about as easy to quantify as the number of grains of sand on a beach.

you could always try asking the users what they want?

--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"David Van Zandt" <dvanzandt_at_iquest.net> wrote in message
news:eyH_6.14$q34.18599_at_news1.iquest.net...


> It's audit time in my division and pretty graphs are the sizzle to the

> steak, so to speak.  Between IOUG, OEM, and STAT I have a decent

 repository


> of trends documented.  Unfortunately, my Pooh brain is stumped on what

> historical data may be seen as useful -- the purpose, heh, is to document

> the degree of fulfillment to our customer expectations.  Customers, in

> general, don't give a flip about ratios or table sizes.

>

> Any useful ideas gratefully welcomed.  Thanks all.

>

> Dave Van Zandt

> Senior DBA, Alcoa

>

>

Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 10:19:59 CDT