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While analyzing Write-Back cache activity on Exadata storage cells, I wanted something to interactively monitor IO while I was running various tests. The problem is summarizing the results from ALL...
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Dtrace probes in Oracle 12c… v$kernel_io_outlier is populated by dtrace!!
Oracle 12c certainly has some great features, but for the performance guy like myself, performance monitoring features are particularly interesting. There are three new v$ tables that track anomalies...
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