AWR: to what extent does the database work?

With this short post, I would like to dispel one misunderstanding related to the AWR analysis of databases running on Oracle Exadata. For almost 10 years, I have been constantly confronted with the question: What is the contribution of Exadata Software to productivity? Or with the use of newly formed words: to what extent does the work of this or that database go?

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Exadata- , Top10 Foreground Events by Total Wait Time ( Foreground Wait Events). AWR, Exadata- Top10 5%:

Event

Waits

Total Wait Time (sec)

Avg Wait

% DB time

Wait Class

DB CPU



115.2K



70.4



SQL*Net more data from dblink

670,196

5471.5

8.16ms

3.3

Network

cell single block physical read

5,661,452

3827.6

676.07us

2.3

User I/O

Sync ASM rebalance

4,350,012

3481.3

800.30us

2.1

Other

cell multiblock physical read

759,885

2252

2.96ms

1.4

User I/O

direct path read

374,368

1811.3

4.84ms

1.1

User I/O

SQL*Net message from dblink

7,983

1725

216.08ms

1.1

Network

cell smart table scan

1,007,520

1260.7

1.25ms

0.8

User I/O

direct path read temp

520,211

808.4

1.55ms

0.5

User I/O

enq: TM - contention

652

795.8

1220.55ms

0.5

Application

AWR :

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