“Very useful in taking away some of the mystique which has been created about interpreting statspack reports”

“A very valuable insight to help assessment of statspack”

“For me the highlight of the event. Seeing Jonathan performing the analysis was quite fascinating and useful to learn from”

“Inspiring”

I particularly liked this last one – it’s an accurate assessment and a good suggestion:

“Very good idea. I feel statspack/awr analysis is a lot to do with experience. Maybe we can continue this as a theme for SIGS as a closing 30 mins for someone to do something similar each time.”

It had occurred to me, entirely independently I assure you, to try doing this on the course I do for Oracle. The AWR chapter has a small number of slides on how to approach reading an AWR report based on personal experience and Connie Green’s excellent paper that you’ve mentioned in the past. I’d dig out a couple of example reports and go through them but it seemed a bit lifeless so last time I suggested some attendees mail be some reports. I was slightly overwhelmed by the demand and it was a fascinating experience. In the end, I agree it was a big help when the owners of the systems were there, so we could have a dialogue about what the reports were showing which included their system knowledge.

I’ll emphasise that my treatment of the reports was *very* light and not the in-depth analysis you could do (in fact a couple of the reports are still in my Inbox for more detailed follow-up). So I’m not comparing our approach or touting for business – you’re the man for this particular job and I have enough of my current clients systems to look at! It was just funny we thought of something similar at similar times and wanted to share my experience of the process.

Oh, in fact, I noticed you were planning for this presentation when I was receiving reports and thought of suggesting they might want to send them to you too ;-)