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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, Oracle OpenWorld Conference, October 20, 2006 - A group of Oracle
database performance experts today announced the availability of StatspackAnalyzer.com. This
is a freely available online tool that analyzes the data from a user's own Statspack report
and presents clear, customized recommendations for improving the performance of the user's
Oracle database in a detailed, yet easy to read, report.
Oracle provides its popular Statspack tool to users to make interpretation of complex
performance statistics complete and easy. Statspack gathers such data as transaction volumes,
profiles, and wait events, then calculates performance ratios, including cache hits, I/O and
transaction statistics. The extensive and detailed elapsed-time data that Statspack captures
is extremely useful, but inherently complex. One shortcoming of the Statspack report is that
it does not provide expert recommendations to help users improve their database performance.
Analyzing and interpreting these extensive Statspack reports is a tedious and complex task
that requires years of detailed Oracle performance expertise. The StatspackAnalyzer tool
alleviates this burden by quickly analyzing the Statspack reports data and presenting custom
recommendations in a detailed, easy to read report. By providing this rapid analysis and
prescriptive recommendations, Oracle DBAs and developers can be more responsive and effective.
The analysis and recommendations that StatspackAnalyzer.com provides are based on quantifying
the decision rules of Oracle tuning experts from Burleson Consulting and Texas Memory Systems.
The recommendations are created by automating heuristics for interpreting complex performance
data into an expert system framework. By making the tool freely available to the Oracle
community on StatspackAnalyzer.com, they hope to encourage other Oracle experts to contribute
expertise that will lead to ongoing improvement and refinement of the tool.
"Too much creative effort is lost by having Oracle experts continuously analyze and interpret
performance data," said Don Burleson, CEO of Burleson Consulting, author of numerous books on
Oracle database performance tuning and champion of the StatspackAnalyzer.com initiative.
"Oracle's Statspack and Automatic Workload Repository reports provide an abundance of
super-detailed data that can help DBAs understand the internal issues that affect their
database performance. Unfortunately, the reports only present raw data and an expert is
required to interpret the statistics and recommend changes. StatspackAnalyzer takes away this
repetitive effort and frees up expert creativity, which is good for the whole Oracle
community."
StatspackAnalyzer.com combines expertise from many sources and looks to involve additional
experts so that the toolset will continue to evolve and improve. The service is immediately
available at www.StatspackAnalyzer.com.
Texas Memory Systems, a StatspackAnalyzer.com sponsor and makers of the "World's Fastest
Storage", will be demonstrating the StatspackAnalyzer at its Oracle OpenWorld booth #930.
Additionally, Texas Memory Systems will be hosting presentations by Oracle guru Don Burleson,
Steve Karam (an Oracle Certified Master) and Tim Hall, Oracle's ACE of the year.
About StatspackAnalyzer.com
StatspackAnalyzer.com is a forum where Oracle experts combine expertise to improve analysis
and performance tuning of Oracle databases. The www.StatspackAnalyzer.com website offers a
free tool to help Oracle users, developers and database administrators analyze their Oracle
Statspack report data and receive customized recommendations to increase the performance of
their databases. Oracle experts are invited to contribute expertise to continuously improve
the tools. For more information, visit
www.StatspackAnalyzer.com.
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