Introducing the AWR
The Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) is a new infrastructure component that is at the heart of the collection and processing of the vast amount of performance data in Oracle Database 10g. The data collected by AWR forms the basis for most of the problem-detection and self-tuning mechanisms that Oracle Database 10g provides. In fact, the performance-alert mechanisms rely on this data, as do many of the performance advisors. The Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) uses this data as well, performing scheduled analysis of the data collected by AWR.
AWR consists of two components: in-memory performance statistics, accessible through V$ views, and snapshots of these V$ views “persisted” in the database that record the ...
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