Analyzing data using Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)

In this recipe, we present the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor, a tool which analyzes the data collected by AWR to diagnose the cause of a performance problem, providing advice on how to solve the issue.

Getting ready

ADDM is enabled by default in Oracle Database 11g; it depends upon two configuration parameters of the init.ora file, STATISTICS_LEVEL and CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS. The value for these parameters should be TYPICAL or ALL for the former and DIAGNOSTIC or DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING for the latter. To show the current parameter values, we can use the following statement:

SHOW PARAMETER STATISTICS_LEVEL
SHOW PARAMETER CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS

While to set the parameters ...

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