Listen to your database. How to Understand an Oracle AWR Report

It is sometimes difficult to quickly identify the root cause of a performance issue in the database. Automatic workload Repository (AWR) contains most of the information needed to identify these issues, but it could be overwhelming due the amount of data and statistics. Then, there’s a need of a method to quickly identify if the database system is CPU or I/O bound along with the top SQL statements in that period of time.

This session will explain how to identify the time consumed and the time waited by the database. It also drills down to particular SQL statements responsible of this time consumed.