Today, I tried to get a nice, clean report about objects with reclaimable space from Segment Advisor. It is no problem to display the list in Enterprise Manager Grid|DB Control, but it is not so easy in SQL*Plus.

This is what i ended up with:

 SELECT
  segment_owner ,
  segment_name,
  round(allocated_space/1024/1024) ALLOC_MB ,
  round(used_space/1024/1024) USED_MB ,
  round(reclaimable_space/1024/1024) RECLAIM_MB    ,
  (1-ROUND((used_space/allocated_space),2))*100 AS reclaim_pct
   FROM TABLE(dbms_space.asa_recommendations('TRUE', 'TRUE', 'FALSE'))
  WHERE tablespace_name IN ('TS_DATA')
AND segment_type         = 'TABLE'
AND segment_owner LIKE '%'
AND segment_name LIKE '%'
AND (reclaimable_space >= 1000000
         OR (((1-ROUND((used_space/allocated_space),2))*100)) > 30)
ORDER BY reclaimable_space DESC

One of my customers is having severe RAC performance issues, which appeared a dozen times so far. Each time, the performance impact lasted around 10 minutes and caused basically a hang of the application. ASH investigation revealed that the time frame of performance issues exactly matches a DRM operation of the biggest segment of the database. During the problematic time period, there are 20-50 instead of 5-10 active sessions and they are mostly waiting for gc related events: “gc buffer busy”,”gc cr block busy”, “gc cr block 2-way”, “gc current block 2-way”, “gc current request”, “gc current grant busy”, etc.

In addition, there is one single session which has wait event “kjbdrmcvtq lmon drm quiesce: ping completion” (on instance 1) and 1-3 sessions with wait event “gc remaster“. (on instance 2) The cur_obj# of the session waiting on “gc remaster” is pointing to the segment being remastered.

Does anybody have any experience with DRM problems with 10.2.0.4 on Linux Itanium?

I know that it is possible to deactive DRM, but usually it should be beneficial to have it enabled. I could not find any reports of performance impact during DRM operation on metalink. Support is involved but clueless so far.

Regards,
Martin

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I just saw that Christian Antognini has released an update of TVD$XTAT. I am looking forward to experimenting with it. If you used tkprof in the past, you should definitely take a look at this tool.

The database specialist Riyaj Shamsudeen from The Pythian Group has published some excellent presentations on his blog. Don´t miss it!

I have documented a successful online redefinition operation on a mission-critical Siebel database. It was performed after a big portion of the rows have been deleted. Additionally, row chaining was removed.

The paper can be found in the “papers” section or downloaded here: Online Reorganisation with DBMS_REDEFINITION