The Fastest Way to Find and Fix Performance Bottlenecks in the Oracle Database

There is an explosion of data today leading to database performance bottlenecks that can cripple your organization. You must find these bottlenecks before applications are affected, but it’s nearly impossible to do so without a clear view of I/O and user activity. And relying on manual methods to diagnose and resolve every issue is time-consuming and inefficient, especially when you consider that the Oracle environment is getting more and more complex. You need automated solutions to quickly identify, diagnose and/or resolve performance problems.

Spotlight on Oracle allows you to rapidly discover performance bottlenecks in your Oracle database. It shows you the performance status—and diagnoses the health—of your environment, both in real time and historically using a granular record-and-playback function. Additionally, Spotlight automatically sets a baseline of normal activity for each instance, and then establishes thresholds. Based on these thresholds, Spotlight delivers alerts as it detects performance bottlenecks of any kind. Spotlight provides real-time diagnostics, granting you the fastest way to find and fix performance bottlenecks.

Spotlight on Oracle provides an intuitive interface displaying the architecture of your Oracle environment for immediate diagnosis of performance bottlenecks

See which edition of Spotlight on Oracle is right for you:

• SpotlightonOracleStandardEdition(partofToadDBASuite)Identify and diagnose thousands of performance issues—whether they’re related to a specific user, resource-intensive SQL transaction, I/O bottleneck, lock wait or other exact source. Automatically set baselines and thresholds, and display alerts.

• SpotlightonOracleProfessionalEditionGet all of the Standard Edition’s capabilities plus OS diagnostics to quickly correct performance problems in Linux, Unix and Windows. In addition, a new capability called “predictive diagnostics” goes beyond detecting and diagnosing immediate performance problems—anticipating future performance issues before they impact the database.

• SpotlightonOracleXpertEditionGet all of the capabilities from the Standard and Professional Editions, plus automated SQL tuning to maximize SQL performance, and diagnostics for Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) to detect performance bottlenecks from the node to the cluster and the interconnect.

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“Spotlight on Oracle has reduced the amount of time to identify issues in this environment by 97 percent. Previously it took us at least 30 minutes, but now we can do it in under a minute.”

— Iqbal Mohammed Chief of Systems and Database Administration Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Key Benefits

• Discover hard-to-find

bottlenecks

• Eliminate guesswork in

identifying problems in the

Oracle database

• View an intuitive GUI, providing

instant visual comprehension

of performance bottlenecks for

quick time to resolution

• Prevent or minimize unplanned

database downtime

SystemRequirements

Client:

• Windows 2000 SP4+

• Windows XP SP1+

• Windows Vista Business SP1+

• SQL*Net 2.3.4 or later

• Oracle 9.2.0.4, 10g

(full client or instant client), 11g

• Citrix XP

Database:

• Oracle 9.2.0.4 (or later)

• Oracle 10g (R1 and R2)

• Oracle 11g (R1 and R2)

OperatingSystems:

• Windows 2000 SP4

• Windows XP (SP2 or SP3)

• Windows 2003 Server

• Windows 2008 Server

• HP-UX 11i, 11i v2, 11i v3

• IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

• Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10

• Red Hat and SUSE

(Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6)

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Feature Benefits Standard Professional Xpert

Real-time diagnostics (including record and playback)

• See graphical flows that illustrate the rate at which data moves between components

• Get alerts of potential bottlenecks via audio or visual alarm if any component begins to exceed performance thresholds

• Extend the ability to play back past instances

Enhanced Top SQL Drilldown

• Displays consolidated view of the SQL statements to identify those consuming the most resources

Analyze Trace • Drilldown provides a graphical view of the contents of Oracle trace files to see how Oracle is processing SQL statements for the database and how resources are being used to execute those statements

Knowledge Xpert for Oracle Administration

• Follow a built-in tuning guide for efficient reference

Troubleshooting instances

• Leverage a baseline for normal activity from a built-in calibration process

• Set up thresholds and get warnings of impending problems from visual or audible alerts

Alert Log Reader • Displays an easy-to-read chronological list of messages and errors that have occurred in the Oracle database, offering quick identification of areas to fix

Diagnostics for Unix, Linux & Windows OS

• See graphic displays in real time of the actual flow of data in your Unix, Linux, and Windows operating systems to get diagnostics on the server OS

Basic Enhanced Enhanced

Predictive Diagnostics

• Predict the future performance for individual SQL statements

• Predict increases in contention that might result in future database performance degradation if current trends continue

• Predict optimum system resource requirements via performance modeling

Diagnostics for RAC infrastructure

• View an aggregate of performance data across all instances of the cluster

• See a consolidated view of cluster-level alarms

OptionalAdd-on

SQL optimization • Eliminate the manual, time-intensive process of ensuring that SQL code performs as fast as possible

OptionalAdd-on

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Comparison Chart of Spotlight on Oracle Editions