As a follow-up of my last post, I learned that creating traces is much simpler in 11g than I expected it to be. Dion Cho and Tanel Poder pointed me to some interesting links http://oraclue.com/2009/03/24/oracle-event-sql_trace-in-11g/ http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle/troubleshooting/oradebug-doc describing how to set up a trace event on one SQL_ID without need to do it on session level […]
Month: August 2010
Oracle 11.2: Cursor Mutex S wait event and too many (2^30) child cursors
Once again, there was a lesson to be learned about the Oracle RDBMS. The occaison was a direct upgrade from Enterprise Edition 10gR2 to EE 11gR2, the application was kept untouched for good reason. Problem After running the new version for two hours, everything became incredibly slow, and the CPU load on the DB server […]