Load profile

I like Load profile section of Statspack or AWR reports (who doesn’t). It’s short and gives a brief understanding of what kind of work a database does. But what if you don’t have an access to Statspack or AWR but still want to see something similar? It’s possible to use V$SYSMETRIC to get this numbers for last 60 or 15 seconds. I wanted to write a script to do this for a long time. Here it is.

col short_name  format a20              heading 'Load Profile'
col per_sec     format 999,999,999.9    heading 'Per Second'
col per_tx      format 999,999,999.9    heading 'Per Transaction'
set colsep '   '

select lpad(short_name, 20, ' ') short_name
     , per_sec
     , per_tx from
    (select short_name
          , max(decode(typ, 1, value)) per_sec
          , max(decode(typ, 2, value)) per_tx
          , max(m_rank) m_rank 
       from
        (select /*+ use_hash(s) */ 
                m.short_name
              , s.value * coeff value
              , typ
              , m_rank
           from v$sysmetric s,
               (select 'Database Time Per Sec'                      metric_name, 'DB Time' short_name, .01 coeff, 1 typ, 1 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'CPU Usage Per Sec'                          metric_name, 'DB CPU' short_name, .01 coeff, 1 typ, 2 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Redo Generated Per Sec'                     metric_name, 'Redo size' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 3 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Logical Reads Per Sec'                      metric_name, 'Logical reads' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 4 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'DB Block Changes Per Sec'                   metric_name, 'Block changes' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 5 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Physical Reads Per Sec'                     metric_name, 'Physical reads' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 6 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Physical Writes Per Sec'                    metric_name, 'Physical writes' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 7 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Calls Per Sec'                         metric_name, 'User calls' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 8 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Total Parse Count Per Sec'                  metric_name, 'Parses' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 9 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Hard Parse Count Per Sec'                   metric_name, 'Hard Parses' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 10 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Logons Per Sec'                             metric_name, 'Logons' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 11 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Executions Per Sec'                         metric_name, 'Executes' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 12 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Rollbacks Per Sec'                     metric_name, 'Rollbacks' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 13 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Transaction Per Sec'                   metric_name, 'Transactions' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 14 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Rollback UndoRec Applied Per Sec'      metric_name, 'Applied urec' short_name, 1 coeff, 1 typ, 15 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Redo Generated Per Txn'                     metric_name, 'Redo size' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 3 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Logical Reads Per Txn'                      metric_name, 'Logical reads' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 4 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'DB Block Changes Per Txn'                   metric_name, 'Block changes' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 5 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Physical Reads Per Txn'                     metric_name, 'Physical reads' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 6 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Physical Writes Per Txn'                    metric_name, 'Physical writes' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 7 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Calls Per Txn'                         metric_name, 'User calls' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 8 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Total Parse Count Per Txn'                  metric_name, 'Parses' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 9 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Hard Parse Count Per Txn'                   metric_name, 'Hard Parses' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 10 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Logons Per Txn'                             metric_name, 'Logons' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 11 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'Executions Per Txn'                         metric_name, 'Executes' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 12 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Rollbacks Per Txn'                     metric_name, 'Rollbacks' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 13 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Transaction Per Txn'                   metric_name, 'Transactions' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 14 m_rank from dual union all
                select 'User Rollback Undo Records Applied Per Txn' metric_name, 'Applied urec' short_name, 1 coeff, 2 typ, 15 m_rank from dual) m
          where m.metric_name = s.metric_name
            and s.intsize_csec > 5000
            and s.intsize_csec < 7000)
      group by short_name)
 order by m_rank;

Couple of notes:

• It’s a simple piece of code with most of it being copy-paste to select data that is only required and to sort it the same way as AWR does
• I’ve deliberately supplied a USE_HASH hint to the query because on one DB without a fixed objects statistics (or wrong – not sure) Oracle decided to do a NESTED LOOP with a FULL SCAN of a huge in-memory structure so the query took around a second to execute. Don’t wanna that happen
• It’s possible to utilize PIVOT in the query, but it’ll limit applicability to 11g only – and I want this SQL to be able to run on 10g too

And here is a sample output. Looks familiar 🙂

Load Profile               Per Second   Per Transaction
--------------------   --------------   ---------------
             DB Time               .7
              DB CPU               .7
           Redo size        217,570.3       4,283,958.7
       Logical reads          4,177.1          82,248.0
       Block changes          1,475.5          29,053.0
      Physical reads               .1               2.0
     Physical writes               .4               8.3
          User calls               .3               6.0
              Parses              8.2             161.3
         Hard Parses              7.3             144.0
              Logons               .1               1.3
            Executes            722.3          14,222.3
           Rollbacks               .0
        Transactions               .1
        Applied urec               .1               1.0