Throughput, throughput, throughput - for many databases, this is the performance measure of importance. When you are working with a fixed number of IOPS but see mixed workload types, system health can be assessed through the average read and write operation size. In an ASM environment, we can query this information by ASM disk
How long does your Oracle RMAN backup take to complete? How does this vary over time? Are there patterns by week, week of month, or day of week? The gist below can help you evaluate questions like these. If you're interested in using R with Oracle more generally, check out this previous post
Did you find this post useful? Does your organization need Oracle services? We can help. Much of this morning went into investigating strange ADDM reports on a two-node Oracle RAC database. For some reason, there were statistically improbable differences between impact percentages that have persisted over a month; in this case, instance 2 would
