SQL Performance Analyzer

ADB Migration: Why does my SPA report has so many errors?

I’m dealing lately with several migration to Oracle Autonomous Database, mostly to ADB Serverless (called “shared” a while ago, in short: ADB-S). With one of the customers we run SQL Performance Analyzer reports with about 1500 statements. But one topic came up in this ADB Migration: Why does my SPA report has so many errors? Let’s see why that is …

A little bit of background on SPA

The SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) is one of the two pieces of Real Application Testing. This is a feature in the database I keep using …

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Different Metrics for SPA (SQL Performance Analyzer)

I’m more the command line type of person. Once I’ve understand what’s going on behind the curtains I certainly switch to the GUI-click-click tools. But in the case of Real Application Testing – even though the support via the OEM GUI is excellent – sometimes I prefer to run my procedures from the command line and check my reports in the browser.

Recently Thomas, a colleague from Oracle ACS Support, and I were asking ourselves about the different comparison metrics for the SQL Performance Analyzer reporting We did scan the documentation but we found only examples but no complete …

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