2. Oracle Enterprise Manager: Empowering IT to Drive Business Value
Next Generation Database Management with Oracle 11g
Martin Lambert
Business Development Manager – Oracle Australia

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Agenda
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The “Big 4” 11g features
Real Application Testing
Advanced Compression
Active DataGuard
Total Recall
Enterprise Manager 11G and the DBA
“It’s not just about the database”

4. Oracle Database 11g Highlights
High Availability
Logminer, Physical Standby, Streams support for XMLType, TDE
Fast Start Failover with Async Propagation
Faster Logical Standby Apply
Flashback Transaction
Data Repair Advisor
Integration
Faster Gateways
Gateways to Legacy Databases
Streams Synchronous Capture
Streams Faster Apply
Performance and Scalability
RAC Scalability Enhancements
Faster PL/SQL Triggers
Security
Tablespace and LOB Encryption
Secure By Default
Enterprise Manager support for TDE, OLS, VPD, EUS
TDE works with LOBS, log miner
Windows
VSS Writer for Point In Time Copies
Manageability and Diagnosability
Unified Automatic Memory Management
Scheduler supports remote jobs
Automatic Health Monitoring
Faster Database Upgrades
ASM
Variable extent sizes, Fast resync, Preferred reads
RAC
Highly optimized protocols
ADDM for RAC
Content Management Infrastructure
Binary XML storage
Enhanced XML indexing
Combined Text and Relational Indexes
DICOM Medical Imaging Support
Storage & Query of Semantic Content (RDF, OWL)
Business Intelligence
Next generation OLAP
Supermodels for Data Mining
Enterprise Manager is DW aware
PIVOT/UNPIVOT operators

5. The Big 4 Features in 11g Real Application Testing
Advanced Compression
Active Data Guard
Total Recall

6. Real Application Testing – Database Replay
Recreate actual production database workload in test environment
Identify, analyze and fix potential instabilities before making changes to production
Capture Workload in Production
Capture full production workload with real load & concurrency info
Move the captured workload to test system
Replay Workload in Test
Make the desired changes in test system
Replay workload with production load & concurrency
Honor commit ordering
Analyze & Report
Errors
Data divergence
Performance divergence
Analysis & Reporting

7. Database Replay Workflow
Production ( )
Mid-Tier
Clients …
Capture
Storage
Windows
File System
ASM …
Test (  11.1)
Replay
Analysis &
Reporting
Storage
Replay Driver *
Linux
Transfer
Database Replay enables realistic testing of system changes by essentially recreating production environment on a test system. It does this by capturing a workload on the production system and replaying it on a test system with the exact timing, concurrency, and transaction characteristics of the original workload. This makes possible complete assessment of the impact of the change including undesired results such product defects, new contention points or performance regressions. Extensive analysis and reporting is provided to help identify any potential problems, such as new errors encountered and performance divergences.
As a result, businesses can have a high degree of confidence in the overall success of the system change and can significantly reduce production deployment risk.
Replay entire workload with production timing & dependency
<5% performance impact to system during capture
Test any changes from database tier and below, including migration to RAC
Test system does not require mid-tier
Can capture from and replay in 11.1 database release
Pre-
Process

8. Real Application Testing
Real Application Testing = SPA + Database Replay
SPA + Database Replay are complementary
Together, provide comprehensive & flexible testing solution
SQL Performance Analyzer
Predicts impact of change on SQL response time
Assess change by executing query part of SQL in isolation without concurrency
Unit testing of SQL, e.g., optimizer stats/config, drop index, etc.
Can use for upgrades from
9.2/10.1 10.2 or 11g
10.2 10.2 or 11g
Database Replay
Predicts impact of change on workload throughput
Assess change by replaying workload with concurrency
Comprehensive testing of DB stack, e.g, memory, RAC, concurrency related
Can use for upgrades from
9.2 or 10.2 11g

9. Snapshot Standby – Leverage Standby Database for Testing
Physical Standby Apply Logs
Convert Physical Standby to Snapshot Standby and open for writes by testing applications
ALTER DATABASE CONVERT TO SNAPSHOT STANDBY;
Discard testing writes and catch-up to primary by applying logs
ALTER DATABASE CONVERT TO PHYSICAL STANDBY;
Preserves zero data loss
But no real time query or fast failover
No idle resources
Similar to storage snapshots, but:
Provides DR at the same time
Uses single copy of storage
Open Database
Back out Changes
Snapshot Standby Perform Testing
Continuous Redo Shipping

10. The Big 4 New Features in 11g
Real Application Testing
Advanced Compression
Active Data Guard
Total Recall

11. 3X Advanced Compression in Oracle Database 11g
Comprehensive set of data compression capabilities
Structured ( inline ), unstructured ( zlib ), rman ( zlib ),
network transport ( zlib ), datapump ( bzip2 )
Reduces storage consumption by 2 – 3 times
Savings cascades into test, dev, QA, backup, DR environments
Enhances memory and network efficiency
Complete application transparency
Benefits diverse application workloads
Transaction Processing
Data Warehousing
Content Management
Up To 3X
Compression

12. OLTP Table Compression
Uncompressed Block
1•• 2•• 3•• 4 •  •  5•Jack•
Free Space
Compressed Block
Header
Header
John=|Doe=|Jane=|Smith=
1•John•Doe 2•Jane• Doe 3•John•Smith 4• Jane • Doe 5•Jack •Smith Free Space
1•John•Doe 2•Jane• Doe 3•John•Smith 4• Jane • Doe
Free Space
Local
Symbol Table
More Data
Per Block

13. The Big 4 New Features in 11g
Real Application Testing
Advanced Compression
Active Data Guard
Total Recall

14. Data Guard vs Active Data Guard
Data Guard 11g
Stop redo apply at 8am
Open read-only for queries
Active Data Guard Option
Redo apply is always on
Always open read only
By 4pm, data is 8 hours old
Queries and reports always see latest data
Any failover will be delayed due to backlog of data that must be applied
Failover is immediate when needed, standby database always up-to-date
To illustrate the value of Active Data Guard, lets compare it to the basic functionality that is included with Data Guard 11g. In this example we are using our physical standby database for reporting.
With Data Guard 11g, similar to all previous Data Guard releases, if I wish to open the standby database read-only, I need to stop the apply of redo from current transactions occurring on the primary database. Data Guard 11g will still ship the recovery (redo) data to the standby site, but the data is archived at the standby to be applied at a later time. Data Guard 11g, WITHOUT the Active Data Guard Option, can not simultaneously apply current data and be open read-only.
In contrast, if I have the Active Data Guard Option enabled, apply is always on while the standby is open read-only.
So in the Data Guard 11g case, since apply is not active while open read-only, by 4pm in the afternoon the data that my queries are returning on my read-only standby is 8 hours old – frozen in time from the moment I opened the database read-only. In contrast, with Active Data Guard, queries always return the latest results.
The other consideration is that at failover time, should an unplanned event make the primary database unavailable and require a failover to occur, the Data Guard 11g standby will need to process the backlog of the day’s transactions that have been accumulating at the standby database while it was open read-only. This will increase the time needed to complete the failover and increase downtime. When using the Active Data Guard Option, the standby is always up-to-date, failover is immediate.
This not only illustrates the benefit of Active Data Guard, it also help to illustrate why so few customers currently use their physical standby for read-only queries. Stale data, and the impact on failover time – are significant hurdles to utilizing physical standby databases before the Active Data Guard Option.

15. Active Data Guard 11g Scale-out Query Performance to Web-Scale*
queries
Or Single Node
Active Data Guard Reader Farm
queries
updates
queries
queries
queries
Production
Database
Standby Databases
DR included *

16. The Big 4 New Features in 11g
Real Application Testing
Advanced Compression
Active Data Guard
Total Recall

17. Managing Data History – Current Approaches
Application or mid-tier level
Combines business logic and archive policies
Increases complexity
No centralized management
Data integrity issues if underlying data is updated directly
Database level
Enabled using Triggers
Significant performance and maintenance overhead
External or Third-party
History stored in separate database
Cannot seamlessly query OLTP and history data
Application level approach means application code needs to be changed and maintained. No SQL*Plus access. Difficult to react to new requirements.
“Princeton” is an example of external, third-party solution. Specialized UI. Not standard SQL.

18. Introducing Flashback Data Archive
Seamless access to archived historical data
Using “AS OF” SQL construct
select * from product_information AS OF TIMESTAMP
'02-MAY AM‘ where product_id = 3060
History is stored in automatically created history tables inside the archive
History is captured asynchronously by new background process (fbda)
Note: no “versions” query yet (possible future)

19. <Insert Picture Here>
Agenda
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The “Big 4” 11g features
Real Application Testing
Advanced Compression
Active DataGuard
Total Recall
Enterprise Manager 11G and the DBA
“It’s not just about the database”

20. Sustain Optimal Performance
Top DBA Challenges
Sustain Optimal Performance
Performance Management
Preserve Order Amid Change
Change Management
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Ongoing Administration
Oracle surveyed our installed base and we found that regardless of company size or number of databases managed, the tasks that a DBA needs to perform fall into one of three main categories.
Delivering sustained, optimal performance and uptime is critical to the business users of your databases.
Even while performance management is going on, your environment itself is changing. You may be adding indexes to improve the performance of a particular report, or you may be changing from large Unix servers to a grid of Linux servers or changing out your Storage Area Network or just applying routine patches to your database or your operating system. Amidst all this change, the database and business applications must continue to perform and be available to your business users. It is the role of the DBA to manage all this change in an orderly fashion.
And while this is all happening, you still have the manage the ongoing tasks in your environment like space management, user management, and the provisioning and testing of new systems.
These tasks consume nearly all of the time for DBAs leaving little time for training or professional development. And the number of databases being managed generally only goes one way – up. All of these demands make it necessary for intelligent tools to assist DBAs and that is what Oracle is here to talk with you about today. 20

21. Top DBA Challenges Performance Management Change Management
Sustain Optimal Performance
Performance Diagnostics
Application Tuning
Performance Management
Change Management
Preserve Order Amid Change
Ongoing Administration
Now, let’s look at some of the top challenges DBAs face in the area of performance management and lets break these down into to Performance Diagnostics and Application Tuning.
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22. 4/1/2017
Automatic Performance Diagnostics Maximize Performance With Self-Managing Database
Performance & Management Advisors
High Load SQL
RAC Issues
IO / CPU Issues
Boost Administrator Productivity
Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks
Lower IT Management Costs
Deliver Higher Quality of Service
Self-Diagnostic Engine
Automatic Workload
Repository Snapshots
Sustain maximum performance with self-managing database
Top-down analysis using Automatic Workload Repository snapshots
Real-time performance analysis with Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
Resolve performance issues faster with drill-down root-cause analysis
Classification tree based on Oracle performance tuning expertise
Performance expert; now a RAC specialist too in Oracle Database 11g
ADDM is a core part of the diagnostic infrastructure in the Oracle Database and it was introduced in Oracle 10g and it has further evolved in Oracle Database 11g. ADDM starts off with analysis of snapshots of key workload metrics taken in the Database. These snapshots include critical performance information pertaining to the database kernel and the database workload as well as at the operating system level. ADDM runs on a regular basis (by default once an hour) and it analyzes this information and makes recommendations on problems that it identifies.
For example, when there are SQL load issues, the SQL Advisors make recommendations on how to tune the SQL statements. Also when there are IO or CPU issues, ADDM gives advice on system resource optimization. And if you are running a RAC cluster, ADDM analyzes your complete RAC infrastructure including your interconnect and it offers advice there as well.
ADDM is part of the database kernel, so it is always up to date an in synch with your version of the database.
ADDM uses a Classification Tree methodology and it brings to your attention only those things which require your attention.
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23. Automatic Performance Diagnostics New in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
Pre-Packaged Apps
Composite Apps
Custom Apps
Middleware
Database
Physical & Virtual Servers
Storage
Application-to-Disk
eCommerce Apps
Enhanced ADDM
NEW: SQL impacting performance findings highlighted
Global AWR report for easier RAC diagnostics
Backward compatibility: Can analyze snapshots from earlier versions
Active Session History (ASH)
NEW: ASH for Standby: Facilitates performance analysis of Standby DB
Global ASH reports for RAC systems
Global ASH report?
Enhanced ADDM:Shows blocking sessions across RAC nodes

24. Performance Diagnostics
4/1/2017
Performance Diagnostics
NEW: Active Reports
Interactive reports for off-line analysis
Offer same level of interactivity with drill-downs for detailed analysis
Can be ed to appropriate personnel for analysis
Does not require Oracle Enterprise Manager installation
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25. RAC Database Manageability New in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
4/1/2017
RAC Database Manageability New in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
NEW: Monitoring and management of Clusterware
NEW: Grid Plug-and-Play support for policy-managed RAC databases
Addition and deletion of RAC nodes
ADDM shows blocking sessions across RAC instances
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26. High Availability New in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
4/1/2017
High Availability New in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
Configuration-wide summary view with charts for RAC/HA setup
Provides recommendations for MAA implementation
NEW: Minimum downtime automation for single instance to MAA
Show Availability related events across the configuration
NEW: Manage role-based standby DBs, e.g. convert Physical Standby to Active Data Guard
Configuration wide view for RAC/HA setup instead of individual targets
Show Availability related events
Instant notifications on RAC Database/Instance Availability
Backup/Recovery
Standby
DB, Instance, ASM
HA Configuration standards
Report Best practice HA configuration standards
Workflows to implement using Enterprise Manager
Show key HA information
% Availability across configuration
Last Backup, Next Backup
FRA charts
Standby metrics, Red generation chart
Cluster Managed Services summary, and drilldowns
Launch HA Operations in context
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27. Top DBA Challenges Performance Management Change Management
Sustain Optimal Performance
Performance Diagnostics
Application Tuning
Performance Management
Change Management
Preserve Order Amid Change
Ongoing Administration
The second part of Performance Management is Application Tuning.
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28. Application Tuning Automatic SQL Tuning
4/1/2017
Application Tuning Automatic SQL Tuning
Packaged Apps + SQL Profile
Customizable Apps + SQL Advice
Customizable Apps + Indexes & MVs + Partitions
Well-Tuned SQL
Automatic Tuning Optimizer
Auto SQL Tuning
Auto SQL
Analysis
Access
SQL
High-Load
Applications
Automatic SQL Tuning
Captures high-load SQL
Tunes SQL using SQL Profiles
Implements greatly improved SQL plans (optional)
Performance benefit of advice provided
SQL Profiling tunes execution plan without changing SQL text
Enables transparent tuning for packaged applications
Automatic SQL Tuning was introduced in 10g. In 11g, we have taken it to the next level.
High load SQL is captured from the kernel and passed to the Automatic Tuning Optimizer. It analyzes the SQL as well as the access structures (indexes, MVs) used by those SQL statements. Out of the ATO come various types of recommendations.
You may get SQL Tuning recommendation to create a SQL Profile which is especially useful with packaged application where you may not be able to wait for your vendor to change a SQL statement.
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29. SQL Tuning Advisor New in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
4/1/2017
SQL Tuning Advisor New in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
SQL
SQL Tuning Advisor
SQL Profiling
Statistics Analysis
Access Path Analysis
SQL Restructure Analysis
Alternative Plan Analysis
Parallel Query Analysis
Automatic Tuning Optimizer
Administrator
SQL
Comprehensive SQL Tuning Recommendations
Gather Missing or Stale Statistics
Create a SQL Profile
Add Missing Access Structures
Modify SQL Constructs
Adopt Alternative Execution Plan
Create Parallel SQL Profile
SQL Tuning Advisor
NEW: Identifies alternative execution plans using real-time and historical performance data
NEW: Recommends appropriate degree of parallelism to improve SQL performance
While tuning a SQL statement, SQL Tuning Advisor searches real-time and historical performance data for alternative execution plans for the statement. If plans other than the original plan exist, then SQL Tuning Advisor reports an alternative plan finding.
Sometimes SQL Tuning Advisor may recommend accepting a profile that uses the Automatic Degree of Parallelism (Auto DOP) feature. A parallel query profile is only recommended when the original plan is serial and when parallel execution can significantly reduce the elapsed time for a long-running query.
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30. Real-Time SQL Monitoring Looking Inside SQL Execution
Automatically monitors long running SQL
Enabled out-of-the-box with no performance impact
Monitors each SQL execution
Exposes monitoring statistics
Global execution level
Plan operation level
Parallel Execution level
Guides tuning efforts
NEW: Available as Active Reports in Grid Control 11.1
NEW: Enhanced to monitor PL/SQL

31. Top DBA Challenges Performance Management Sustain Optimal Performance
Preserve Order Amid Change
Change Detection
Change Testing
Change Automation
Change Management
Now, let’s go on to the area of Change Management – how to preserve order amid change. The first thing we need to do is detect change, whether you are the one making the change or not. Then, we need to be able to apply testing to these changes to see their impact, and finally we need to be able to automate the change propagation throughout your development, test, and production systems.
So, first, let’s talk about how to detect change.
Ongoing Administration
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32. Detecting Configuration and Application Changes
4/1/2017
Detecting Configuration and Application Changes
Security
Monitoring
Policies
Reports
Compare
Configuration Changes
Ensures system compliance with company standards
Detects unauthorized (malicious) changes
Over 300 out-of-box policies per Oracle “best practices”
Monitor compliance continuously
Application Changes
NEW: Real-time schema change detection
Schema compare capability help identify
Malicious SQL
Unauthorized access control changes
Changes to tables, procedures, triggers, functions
New/dropped indexes, etc.
Changes can take many different forms. They can be configuration changes, or application changes.
Traditionally, DBAs have had little visibility into the complete picture of what changes are being made.
Oracle provides over 300 best practices polices based upon our experience to help identify when your databases are well configured. You also get a compliance score reflecting degree of compliance (0-100%) with each database that is updated over time. You can also be notified when you are not compliant.
We also offer the ability to track SQL changes to tables, procedures, triggers, functions, and indexes at the schema level. This allows the DBA to see what is going on Inside the database and to track these changes over time.
Real time schema change detection can alert you to unauthorized or unintended changes to your schema. This is important for many reasons including security and performance – for example an index dropped inadvertently.
The XML schema comparison and associated ‘ALTER’ statements allow you to identify changes and to easily reconcile two different schemas.
New in Grid Control 11.1
Real-time schema change detection
New parameter: ENABLE_DDL_LOGGING
TRUE: DDL changes written to alert logs
Schema Baselines
Import to file
Export from file
Meta-Data API for XML-based schema object comparisons
XML document showing metadata and differences between objects
Associated ALTER statements to make one like the other
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33. Top DBA Challenges Performance Management Sustain Optimal Performance
Preserve Order Amid Change
Change Detection
Change Testing
Change Automation
Change Management
Now, on to the actual testing of changes at the host or database level. One of the key challenges is the lack of tools which permit you to test these changes and promote these changes across the enterprise.
Ongoing Administration
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34. Secure Test System Deployment Oracle Data Masking
4/1/2017
Secure Test System Deployment Oracle Data Masking
Production
Test
LAST_NAME
SSN
SALARY
AGUILAR
40,000
BENSON
60,000
LAST_NAME
SSN
SALARY
SMITH
111—
60,000
MILLER
40,000
Deploy secure test system by masking sensitive data
Sensitive data never leaves the database
Extensible template library and policies for automation
Sophisticated masking: Condition-based, compound, deterministic
Integrated masking and cloning
Leverage masking templates for common data types
NEW: Command line (EMCLI) support for data masking actions
Data Masking enhancements New in Grid Control 11.1
CLI support for masking functions
List masking definitions
Generate script
Save script
Re-associate a masking definition to another target
Import a masking definition
Export a masking definition
Data preserving Shuffle
SQL Expression based mask formats
Pre-masking scripts
Random Decimal number generation
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35. Change Testing Oracle Real Application Testing
SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA)
Unit testing of SQL response time
Database Replay
Concurrent load testing using Production workloads
Replay
Workload
Capture
Deploy Replay
Clients
Create Test System
End-to-End Workflow
In the area of test and change management, Real Application Testing enables businesses to adopt new technology dramatically faster and at lower cost and risk. It consists of two separate solutions. The first one is a load testing solution called Database Replay which allows you to replay an actual production workload on a test system while maintaining all the necessary workload characteristics such as timing, concurrency and transactions dependencies. The other solution of Real Application Testing is SQL Performance Analyzer which enables users to identify and remediate SQL regressions resulting from any type of database change. You will be pleased to know that Real Application Testing has been back-ported to earlier releases of the Oracle Database to help customers smoothly transition to new releases.
Proper testing with Database Replay depends on the correct execution of many critical steps. For example, the database system on which testing is to be performed has to have the exact same data as the production system when workload capture was initiated. You need to move AWR performance data from production to test for analysis purposes. You need to deploy replay clients software on target servers that will drive the workload replay. Now, with Enterprise Manager, we provide support for all these steps and offers end-to-end Database Replay automation. It provides a user-friendly workflow to capture production workload and associated performance data, copy the workload to a test system, setup the software and test database to the correct point in time or SCN, deploy replay clients, initiate the replay process, and analyze the replay results. By orchestrating the entire Database Replay workflow in Oracle Enterprise Manager, you can expect fewer errors and faster, more reliable testing.
We have also added enhancements to SQL Performance Analyzer or SPA. We also have more extensive progress monitoring capabilities that are very helpful for analysis of large workloads
With respect to change management, in the production environment all changes in the database need to be tracked. Sometimes the changes made to the production system need to be propagated to the other systems like Reporting, Testing and Training. For application DBAs, that manage the lifecycle of promoting database changes from development to test to production, the new release adds support for propagation of database changes from a gold baseline to multiple databases. This capability allows DBAs to apply multiple sets of changes to an environment and promote the entire set of changes from test to production without having to keep track of the multiple scripts and their dependencies. This also reduces the risk of any unauthorized or untested changes from getting propagated into production.
We now provide Exadata simulation in SPA so that you can see, before actually purchasing Exadata, whether your workload can benefit from Exadata and if so by how much.

36. Oracle Real Application Testing SQL Performance Analyzer
4/1/2017
Oracle Real Application Testing SQL Performance Analyzer
SQL Plans + Stats Pre-Change Trial
SQL Plans + Stats Post-Change Trial
SQL Workload
STS
Compare SQL Performance
Analysis Report
Test and predict impact of system changes on SQL query performance
Analyze performance changes for improvements or regression
Comprehensive performance analysis and reporting
Re-execute SQL queries in test environment
End-to-end solution: STS, SQL Plan Baselines, & SQL Tuning Advisor
Helps users predict the impact of system changes on SQL workload response time
Low overhead capture of SQL workload to SQL Tuning Set (STS) on production system
Build different SQL trials (experiments) of SQL statements performance by test execution
Offers workload as well as fine-grained performance analysis on individual SQL
Integrated with STS, SQL Plan Baselines, & SQL Tuning Advisor to form an end-to-end solution
Test impact of change on SQL query performance
Capture SQL workload in production including statistics & bind variables
Re-execute SQL queries in test environment
Analyze performance changes – improvements and regressions
Use SQL Tuning Advisor to tune regression
SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA)
GUI support for Exadata simulation to estimate performance benefits – done without actual hardware
Workflows to support upgrade use cases from earlier releases
Simple “one-click” STS transport to another database
Automatically execute short running queries multiple times for better SQL trial accuracy
Ability to compare two SQL Tuning Sets. This is useful for:
Better Database Replay analysis
When you can replay workload without Database Replay (e.g., through ATS, scripts or other load testing tools)
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37. SPA Enhancements
Analyze performance of two workloads thru STS comparison
Allows comparing two different STS and generate SPA report
Better SPA trial accuracy through multiple test execution
SPA provides “Alternate Plans” recommendation for individual regressed SQL in a SPA trial
SPA Active Reports
Analyze Performance of Two Workloads thru STS Comparison
Allows comparing two different STS and generate SPA report
Eliminates re-executing SQL for trial data using “Build from STS” trial method
Multiple plans even those with are different binds/env picked up
Use cases: Perform SQL-centric analysis with DB Replay
SQL workload capture into STS-1 during DB Replay - Workload Capture
STS-2 during Database Replay – Workload Replay
Use SPA to build trials from STS-1 and STS-2 and generate report
Similarly with Oracle Application Testing Suite or home-grown scripts
Reporting: SPA Report + Additional information
Common SQL, Missing/New SQL, Plan Changes
Overall Workload and Individual SQL Statistics
Only API support in DB 11.2
Better SPA trial accuracy through multiple test execution
First execution ignored to discount caching effect
Test execute multiple times for short running queries and use averaged statistics
SPA Active Reports
Benefits and usage similar to other Active Reports covered earlier
SPA provides “Alternate Plans” recommendation for individual regressed SQL in a SPA trial
If a better execution plan was noticed in AWR or SQL Trial then a SQL Plan Baseline can be created from for that SQL statement
Similar to “Alternate Plan” SQL Tuning Advisor recommendation

38. Oracle Real Application Testing Database Replay
Capture
Process
Replay
Analysis & Reporting
Production
Replay Driver
Clients
Storage
Reduce costs and risks of database changes
Fully automated workflow
Change Assurance for
Database and O/S upgrades, e.g. migration to Exadata V2
Configuration changes, e.g., conversion from SI to RAC
Storage changes
O/S migrations, e.g., Windows to Linux
Supports upgrades from Oracle 9iR2 to 10gR2 and 11g!
Let me drill down into the Real Application Testing feature. As I said, it allows you to test infrastructure changes – such as hardware/OS upgrade, going from single instance to RAC, database upgrades, etc. The unique aspect of this functionality is that it constructs the test workload by capturing the actual production workload. Real Application Testing therefore enables businesses to adopt new technology dramatically faster and at lower cost and risk.
It consists of two separate solutions. The first one is a load testing solution called Database Replay which allows you to replay an actual production workload on a test system while maintaining all the necessary workload characteristics such as timing, concurrency and transactions dependencies. The other solution of Real Application Testing is SQL Performance Analyzer which enables users to identify and remediate SQL regressions resulting from any type of database change. You will be pleased to know that Real Application Testing has been back-ported to earlier releases of the Oracle Database to help customers smoothly transition to new releases.
Proper testing with Database Replay depends on the correct execution of many critical steps. For example, the database system on which testing is to be performed has to have the exact same data as the production system when workload capture was initiated. You need to move AWR performance data from production to test for analysis purposes. You need to deploy replay clients software on target servers that will drive the workload replay. Enterprise Manager provides support for all these steps and offers end-to-end Database Replay automation. It provides a user-friendly workflow to capture production workload and associated performance data, copy the workload to a test system, setup the software and test database to the correct point in time or SCN, deploy replay clients, initiate the replay process, and analyze the replay results.
By orchestrating the entire Database Replay workflow in Oracle Enterprise Manager, you can expect fewer errors and faster, more reliable testing.
Real Application Testing reduces the risk of embracing a new technology and it reduces the testing time from months to weeks or from weeks to days. This allows businesses to continue to benefit from changes but without any associated negative impacts such as performance degradation, outages, etc.
The kind of systems changes Real Application Testing allows you to test include:
Database and O/S upgrades
Configuration changes, e.g.., conversion from single instance to Oracle RAC
Storage changes such as move to Oracle ASM
O/S migrations, e.g.., Windows to Linux

39. Top DBA Challenges Performance Management Sustain Optimal Performance
Preserve Order Amid Change
Change Detection
Change Testing
Change Automation
Change Management
Now let’s discuss the third area of Change Management. Now that we have identified changes and have determined how to test these changes, how do we roll out these changes across the enterprise?
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40. Testing Automation Reduce Time and Effort of Database Testing
Automate production to test workflow of Database Replay
Capture production workload, performance data
Copy workload, performance data to staging
Provision software, create test database
Deploy replay clients and orchestrate replay

41. Deployment Automation
4/1/2017
Deployment Automation
Create Reference RAC System 1
Stage Gold Image 2
Create Production RAC System 3
Scale-Out RAC 4
Gold image based provisioning
Simplified RAC provisioning with automation
Single click RAC scale-out and scale-back
Provision full RAC and Clusterware systems
ASM Support
Traditionally, managing deployments of new systems has been a very manual process which required a lot of time from the DBA. Oracle has embraced the notion of gold image-based provisioning. Gold images help simplify the creation and deployment of new systems from known, certified configurations which are created by the DBAs and stored in the configuration repository.
Single click RAC deployment is supported for adding or removing capacity from your RAC cluster as you need it. This covers the database as well as the clusterware. It configures the entire stack needed for your RAC cluster.
RAC provisioning
Configures entire stack
Pre-requisite checks & automatic fix-ups
Support Clusterware with Grid Naming Service (GNS)
Support for Grid Plug-n-Play (GPnP) configuration in both initial Provisioning and during Scale out
Configure either Admin managed or Policy Managed databases
Support for configuration profiles including 4 out of box profiles
ASM Support
Database Machine support for Sun
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42. Database Change Automation Schema Changes
Change Management
Schema change propagation
Capture development changes in baseline version
Preview changes before confirming
Propagate planned changes from baseline to multiple databases
In the area of test and change management, Real Application Testing enables businesses to adopt new technology dramatically faster and at lower cost and risk. It consists of two separate solutions. The first one is a load testing solution called Database Replay which allows you to replay an actual production workload on a test system while maintaining all the necessary workload characteristics such as timing, concurrency and transactions dependencies. The other solution of Real Application Testing is SQL Performance Analyzer which enables users to identify and remediate SQL regressions resulting from any type of database change. You will be pleased to know that Real Application Testing has been back-ported to earlier releases of the Oracle Database to help customers smoothly transition to new releases.
Proper testing with Database Replay depends on the correct execution of many critical steps. For example, the database system on which testing is to be performed has to have the exact same data as the production system when workload capture was initiated. You need to move AWR performance data from production to test for analysis purposes. You need to deploy replay clients software on target servers that will drive the workload replay. Now, with Enterprise Manager, we provide support for all these steps and offers end-to-end Database Replay automation. It provides a user-friendly workflow to capture production workload and associated performance data, copy the workload to a test system, setup the software and test database to the correct point in time or SCN, deploy replay clients, initiate the replay process, and analyze the replay results. By orchestrating the entire Database Replay workflow in Oracle Enterprise Manager, you can expect fewer errors and faster, more reliable testing.
We have also added enhancements to SQL Performance Analyzer or SPA. We also have more extensive progress monitoring capabilities that are very helpful for analysis of large workloads
With respect to change management, in the production environment all changes in the database need to be tracked. Sometimes the changes made to the production system need to be propagated to the other systems like Reporting, Testing and Training. For application DBAs, that manage the lifecycle of promoting database changes from development to test to production, the new release adds support for propagation of database changes from a gold baseline to multiple databases. This capability allows DBAs to apply multiple sets of changes to an environment and promote the entire set of changes from test to production without having to keep track of the multiple scripts and their dependencies. This also reduces the risk of any unauthorized or untested changes from getting propagated into production.
We now provide Exadata simulation in SPA so that you can see, before actually purchasing Exadata, whether your workload can benefit from Exadata and if so by how much.

43. Software Change Automation: Patching
My Oracle Support
Analyze
My Oracle Support connection
Proactive advisories
CPUs
Feature based
Patch downloads
Patch Database
Patch/CPU/Patchset
Zero downtime patching for RAC
Lights-out patching for Linux
Automatic download from Oracle ULN
Test
Report
Corporate DMZ
Promote
Verify
Patch
Stage
A task that DBAs have to perform all the time is patching. Oracle Enterprise Manager has the ability to connect to Oracle Metalink and analyze and download the patches you need, apply them in your test environment, promoted them to your staging area, and deploy them into production, and verify that they were applied correctly. This patch lifecycle applies to single patches, patch sets, and Critical Patch Updates.
Also, with Oracle Real Application Clusters, certain patches can be applied in a rolling fashion to each node in the cluster to eliminate downtime.
And with Oracle Enterprise Linux, the ability to download and apply O/S patches is totally automated from beginning to end requiring no intervention at the console.

44. Top DBA Challenges Sustain Optimal Performance Performance Management
Change Management
Preserve Order Amid Change
Manage More with Less
Space and Resource Management
Automated Self-Management
Ongoing Administration
Now, our final section is Ongoing Administration.
This will help us understand how to manage more and more resources with the same number of DBAs. The first section deals with the challenges around installation and configuration of new systems. 44

45. Space and Resource Management
Space Management
NEW: Compression Advisor (Oracle Database 11.2)
Analyzes objects to give estimate of space savings for different compressions methods
Helps in deciding correct compression level for application
Recommends various strategies for compression
Resource Manager
NEW: Instance Caging (Oracle Database 11.2)
More flexible alternative to server partitioning
Wide platform support than operating system resource managers
Lower administration overhead than virtualization
I/O Resource Management for Exadata
ASM Cluster File System support
NEW in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
Comprehensive administration
Proactive Monitoring
Security
Space Management
New in Grid Control 11.1 – Compression Advisor (DB 11.2)
Recommends various strategies for compression
Helps in deciding correct compression level for application
Analyzes objects to give estimate of space savings for different compressions methods
Sorting on a particular column for increasing compression ratio
Picking the right compression algorithm for a particular data set
Works for OLTP compression and Hybrid Columnar compression
Presents tradeoffs between different compression algorithms
New in Grid Control 11.1 – DB 11.2 support
TEMP tablespace shrink
Segment Creation on Demand
Shrink works at file and tablespace level
Improves space utilization by reclaiming unused or over-allocated space
New SEGMENT CREATION DEFERRED clause
Only a small subset is used by any customer
Oracle Applications and SAP create thousands of tables
During table creation, segments are not created for table, lob, index segments
On first row insertion, all segments are created
During a CTAS, segments are not created if no rows returned
E.g.. Oracle Apps has 18K tables
New in Grid Control 11.1 – Instance Caging (DB 11.2)
Resource Manager
Wide platform support than operating system resource managers
More flexible alternative to server partitioning
I/O Resource Management for Exadata
Set CPU_COUNT per instance and enable resource manager
Lower administration overhead than virtualization
Administration
New in Grid Control 11.1
ASM Cluster File System support
Security
Proactive Monitoring
2> On top of that, EM is proactively monitoring the health of the ACFS system by monitoring its availability, state(mount) and space usage. ASM also collects performance metrics for the system
1> EM provided comprehensive management operations for the major components of the ACFS storage including ACFS, dynamic volume, and snapshots.
EM manages ACFS from the following perspectives:
3> ACFS management is cluster aware. It is integrated with the cluster home page as well as host home page to show the overall state and health of ACFS across cluster nodes. Cluster related operations can also be achieved through one mouse click on all cluster instances.
Enterprise Manager Grid Control Plug-in to monitor & manage Exadata Storage Cells
Storage Plug-In for Exadata V2
Works with Enterprise Manager Grid Control and later versions

46. Top DBA Challenges Sustain Optimal Performance Performance Management
Change Management
Preserve Order Amid Change
Manage More with Less
Space and Resource Management
Automated Self-Management
Ongoing Administration
Now we come to the last part of Ongoing Administration and covers Oracle’s comprehensive self-management capabilities. 46

47. Automated Self-Management
Support Workbench
Automatic Diagnostic
Repository
Incident Packaging
Service
Test Case Builder
Fault Diagnostics
Automatic Block Repair
HA Console
MAA Advisor
Automation workflows for
Grid migration
High Availability
Improved RAC install
Easier Upgrade/Downgrade
Enhanced pre-upgrade
Checks
Conditional Masking
Compound Masking
Integrated Clone and Mask
Statistics Versioning
Install, Upgrade, Security
On-demand Segment
Creation
Temp Tablespace Shrink
Compression Advisor
Resource Manager
Instance Caging
ACFS support
Resource Mgmt
In the area of database self-management, and here I will not go through all the enhancements we are introducing in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 because they are too many to describe, but suffice to say that we continue to improve the manageability of the database across the major areas like high availability, install, upgrade, security, resource management and performance management. A few examples are new features or enhancements like Automatic degree of parallelism, Compression Advisor, automatic data block repair, and database clone and mask and integration.
As you know, we have data masking capabilities that enable you to share production data with internal and external entities while preventing sensitive or confidential parts of the information from being disclosed to unauthorized users. Data Masking is now securely integrated with the database cloning capabilities in Enterprise Manager. In addition to the standalone masking process, database administrators now have the flexibility to add data masking to the database clone process by specifying the mask definitions that need to be run after cloning. After the clone process has completed, we brings up the database in RESTRICTED mode, thus disabling non-administrative access and then runs the masking process. Once it verifies that the masking process has completed successfully, the database is then opened automatically for general use.

48. Oracle Database Manageability
Empowering DBAs To Drive Business Value
Enhance Service Quality By Maximizing Application-to-Disk Performance
Improved IT Agility with Risk-free Change Management
Lower IT Costs Through Self-Managing Automation 48

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Agenda
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The “Big 4” 11g features
Real Application Testing
Advanced Compression
Active DataGuard
Total Recall
Enterprise Manager 11G Update
“It’s not just about the database”

50. Complete and Integrated Solution
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle Application Operations Management
User Experience Management
System Monitoring & Diagnostic
Configuration Management
Lifecycle Automation
UI, Security, Integration, Data Management, My Oracle Support Integration
Oracle Fusion Middleware Management
Oracle Database Management
Oracle Solaris & Oracle Enterprise Linux Management
Oracle VM Management
Oracle Sun Server Management
3rd Party Technology Management
<This is one of the two slides in the overview section that lists the actual features of the product. You may use these two slides to present an introduction to the various features before showing your demo.
Expand on the first two boxes from the previous slide on Complete and Integrated aspect of the product. Completeness is communicated by walking through the functional capabilities of the suite as well as the full-stack management capabilities that the rest of Oracle Enterprise Manager provides. As for the integrated attribute, point out that the bulk of the pack runs in the integrated Grid Control console, which is also the integrated tool to manage Oracle middleware, database, VM and even host machines. RUEI, while it runs as a separate piece of software, also contains numerous integration points to Grid Control. ACC and CCC, while being totally separate at the moment, are being absorbed into the next version of EM. Consequently, our management suite is at least as integrated as the most integrated 3rd party product, and more integrated than the rest. Also, focus on the features of the suite, not the console that they run on in order to avoid objection of them being separate software.>
Talking Points
Application Management Suite leverages Oracle Enterprise Manager as its foundation, leveraging its rich set of capabilities in User Experience Management, System Monitoring and Diagnostics, Configuration Management, and Lifecycle Automation, as well as platform functions such as Presentation (Dashboards, Topology Viewer, Reports), Security (Authentication and Role Based Access Control), Integration with other management tools, Data Management (EM Repository, data export), and My Oracle Support integration.
It is part of a complete and integrated solution to manage the complete IT environment. Commonality helps different administrators to work together using a single set of tool and lower training costs as there is a common set of UI.
User Experience Management provides the business perspective on the health of the applications.
System Monitoring & Diagnostic monitors all the key application components via alerts and dashboards and helps troubleshoot problems quicker.
Configuration Management helps model the application environment to visualize dependencies, track changes that are made, and automate IT compliance management.
Lifecycle Automation covers the set of features for command & control (start/stop), EM job system, and for EBS, application change management.

51. Architecture: Network Protocol Analysis
Page
request
Collected data:
• Client-ip, Server-ip, Gateway-ip
• Requested URL (Page,Object)
• Cookie/Session-id
• Referrer
• GET & POST requests
• User agents (phone type)
Network Response Time
• Delivered?
• Aborted?
• Network timeout?
Internet
Firewall
Sniffing
Switch
Server Response Time
• Response?
• Server error, web site error, Hit OK
• Content of page (i.e order details, functional errors)
Web server
Web server
Web server DB DB

52. Product Overview Optimizing end-user experience through real end-user monitoring
Business Reporting
KPI Monitoring
Data Export
Real User Experience Insight key highlights:
Replay of poor performance
Executive dashboards
Extensive KPI and SLA monitoring
Full alerting capabilities
Quick bottle-neck analyses
Transaction performance analyses
Customized reporting
Trend analyses
Full data integration via XML
Transaction Performance
Executive dashboard

53. Tracking Transactions
End-to-End, Application Level View
Process Engine
Service Bus
Real-time tracking of each transaction
Follows transactions across all infrastructure and applications
App Servers, Applications, ESB's, BPM's, Etc.
Leverages message content – the business value flowing through the application
Provides this without modifying or tagging the messages
Message Fingerprinting
Non-invasive; doesn’t break applications 53 53 53 53

54. Performance Analysis View Service topology
Drill into functional implementation
View performance for each step (BPEL activity, service bus pipeline, portal page, region, etc.)
Drill into Java EE implementation of functional step
Even drill to SQL performance for any service (including dehydration SQL) 54

55. Business-Driven IT Management
This slide explains the overall concept and operational architecture of “Business Driven IT Management” – a central theme of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
Business-Driven IT Management has 3 major solution pillars:
Pillar #1: Business Driven Application Management – provides correlated management of User Experience, Business Transactions and Business Services – allows users to identify business issues, understand business needs, and manage from business perspective.
Pillar #2: Integrated Application to Disk & Cloud Management – provides complete and integrated management of Oracle’s SW+HW stack, and private clouds – enables enterprises to eliminate management silos, and create agile IT for dynamic business.
Pillar #3: Integrated Systems Management & Support – provides integration with Services Cloud, including Oracle’s Support Portal (MyOracleSupport.com) – allows users to proactively identify and fix problems, and maximize business productivity.
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This completes a quick overview of the Business-Driven IT Management and its three major solution pillars.
For rest of the presentation, we will zoom into and focus on pillar xxx … -j

56. Q&A 56