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Virtual Classroom: Performance Testing Using the Oracle Cloud for Upgrades and Migrations

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Mike.Dietrich 0

for May 19, 2021 – 10:00h CET

WE HAD TO MOVE IT FROM March 17 to May 19.

Virtual Classroom Web Seminar No.9:

Performance Testing Using the Oracle Cloud for Upgrades and Migrations

Everybody talks “cloud”, but what about the practicalities? We’ve already delivered a full 2-hour talk about how to migrate to the Oracle Cloud (“Move to the Cloud—Not Only for Techies”), and this time we’ll go beyond pure migration. How do you test? What are the best practices? And which special features can you expect in the various cloud deployments? We assume you have on-prem …

The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available now for download

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Hands-On Lab 0

Wow, this took a long while. Thanks to my team mate, Data Pump Product Manager Bill Beauregard who went through the complex approval process, the new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available now for download. And in addition, I adjusted the instructions on the blog as well.

The new Oracle 19c Hands-On Lab is available now for download

Photo by Kenrick Mills on Unsplash

What you’ll get …

At first, the download is huge. All together, you will download 13 files summing up to 25GB. When you unzip it, you will get an OVA file. Then you will need to import this appliance into Oracle VirtualBox. The lab will …

Lost AWR snapshots reappear again in Oracle 12.2 in Multitenant

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich AWR Single-/Multitenant 0

Lost AWR snapshots reappear again in Oracle 12.2 in Multitenant What a strange topic. And I thought I never will blog about this. But as I have received the same question for the third time today, I think there’s a bit clarification needed. Lost AWR snapshots reappear in Oracle 12.2 in Multitenant pluggable databases.

Magically …

Lost AWR snapshots reappear again in Oracle 12.2 in Multitenant

In a non-CDB database you have your local AWR data stored in the SYSAUX tablespace. Whenever you create an AWR snapshot:

exec dbms_workload_repository.create_snapshot;

You can query and of course evaluate it afterwards:

select con_id, snap_id, snap_level, to_char(begin_interval_time, 'dd/mm/yy hh24:mi:ss') BEGIN
from CDB_HIST_SNAPSHOT order by

Gather SQL Statements from AWR and Cursor Cache without need for Diag and Tuning Packs

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich AWR Cloud Statistics 2

When we talk about database upgrades and migrations the most important (and unfortunately time-/resource consuming) activity is testing.

But often testing resources are limited or, even worse, don’t exist. I’ve worked with customers where we migrated a core EBS system off AIX to Linux – but only got a 6 year old Tru64 box for testing purposes (where the recompilation took 20x as long as later on the production environment). Or the classic one: Database is too big thus we test only with 10% of the data.

I know that often your hands are tied. Everybody wants an 1:1 …

How to select statements from AWR?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Mike.Dietrich AWR Performance Tuning 1

Simple question – and more a reminder to myself as I’d assume that many people have their examples somewhere already. But in upgrade and migration projects it’s sometime useful to simply select SQL statements directly from between two AWR snapshots into a SQL Tuning Set (STS). This will give you the possibility to later put a failing plan directly into a SQL Plan Baseline, part of the free Enterprise Edition’s SQL Plan Management feature.