Spotlight on Oracle The fastest way to find and fix Oracle performance bottlenecks

Spotlight on Oracle is a database Spotlight on Oracle (included with Toad diagnostics tool that allows you to rapidly DBA Suite for Oracle) “Spotlight on Oracle has discover performance bottlenecks within • Identify and diagnose performance reduced the amount of your Oracle® database. By providing a issues — whether they’re related time required to identify real-time of all of your critical to a specific user, SQL transaction, issues in our environment database processes, Spotlight reveals I/O bottleneck, lock wait or other the performance status of your Oracle exact source by 97 percent. Previously, components, pinpointing areas of it took us at least 30 • Automatically set baselines, thresholds inefficiency for quick diagnosis. minutes, but now we can and display alerts do it in under a minute.” Spotlight on Oracle does this by • Diagnose automatically setting a baseline of normal inefficiencies, correcting performance Iqbal Mohammed, Chief activity for each instance, and then issues in Linux, UNIX and Windows of Systems and Database establishing thresholds. This can also be • Predictive Diagnostics anticipates future Administration, Abu Dhabi customized to meet the requirements performance issues before they impact Commercial Bank of your environment. Then, based on the database these thresholds, Spotlight on Oracle delivers alerts as it detects performance • Detect and diagnose bottlenecks in bottlenecks of any kind. And using a Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) BENEFITS: record and playback function, you can environments at the node, cluster and • Minimize the time it takes to identify see historical activity as well. the interconnect (Spotlight on Oracle Oracle performance bottlenecks RAC option) • Diagnose the source of database inefficiencies in just a couple of clicks

• Visualize database process flows via an intuitive GUI for instant visual comprehension, aiding in quick time to resolution

• Reduce the risk of performance slowdowns and unplanned database downtime

Spotlight on Oracle’s intuitive interface displays the architecture of your Oracle environment for immediate diagnosis of performance bottlenecks. FEATURES AND BENEFITS Predictive Diagnostics SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Real-time diagnostics (including record • Predict the future performance for and playback) individual SQL statements CLIENT REQUIREMENTS • See graphical flows that illustrate the • Use the predictions to mitigate future Windows Vista Business rate at which data moves between performance issues by identifying SQL database components statements whose performance may not Windows Server 2003, 2008, scale adequately as data volumes and 2012 • Get alerts of potential bottlenecks SQL execution rates increase via an audio or visual alarm if any Windows 7, 8, 10 component begins to exceed Diagnostics for RAC infrastructure performance thresholds SQL*Net 2.3.4 or later (Spotlight on Oracle RAC) • Play back past instances • View an aggregate of performance data Oracle 9.2 through 12c across all instances of the cluster Enhanced top SQL drill-down • See a consolidated view of OPERATING SYSTEMS • See a consolidated view of SQL cluster-level alarms Windows Server 2008, 2012 statements to identify those consuming the most resources For more information on the Spotlight on Oracle Solaris 9, 10, 11 Oracle products, please visit toadworld. Analyze Trace com/products/spotlight. Windows 7, 8, 10 • Get a graphical view of the contents of the Oracle Trace to see how Oracle ABOUT QUEST HP-UX 11i, 11i v2, 11i v3 is processing SQL statements for the Quest helps our customers reduce IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 database and how resources are being used to execute those statements tedious administration tasks so they can Red Hat and SUSE (Linux focus on the innovation necessary for Troubleshooting instances kernel 2.4, 3.0, 3.1) their businesses to grow. Quest® solutions • Get an easy-to-read, chronological list of are scalable, affordable and simple-to-use, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) and errors that have occurred and they deliver unmatched efficiency based on Linux 2.4, 2.6 and in the Oracle database, offering quick 3.8 kernels identification of areas to fix and productivity. Combined with Quest’s invitation to the global community to be • Detect cluster latency problems across a part of its innovation, as well as our CLOUD SERVICES the cluster hardware interconnect (Spotlight on Oracle RAC) firm commitment to ensuring customer Oracle databases running satisfaction, Quest will continue to on Amazon EC2 and • Measure cluster overhead caused by accelerate the delivery of the most Amazon RDS excessive inter-node communication comprehensive solutions for Azure cloud (Spotlight on Oracle RAC) management, SaaS, security, workforce ORACLE RAC SERVERS Alert log reader mobility and data-driven insight. Spotlight on Oracle RAC • See graphic displays in real time of the supports up to 16 instances actual flow of data in your UNIX, Linux in a cluster, with a theoretical and Windows operating systems to get limit of 36 instances. diagnostics on the server OS

Note: A variety of virtual environments are also supported. See release .

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