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Database Software

The following is a list of database software and the differences between each of them:

Sybase

  • Backing up is very important.Server uptime
  • Local and/or remote monitoring of Sybase Servers
  • Amount of free log-file space
  • Data file size for each database
  • Data and log-file cache hit ratio
  • Reports the number of:
    • databases available
    • granted and waited page and table locks
    • transactions and deadlocks pr. second
    • database page reads/writes pr. second
    • disk IO, disk reads and disk writes
    • committed transactions

MS SQL

  • Local and/or remote monitoring of SQL Servers
  • Server uptime
  • Size of database
  • Buffer cache-hit ratio
  • Log-file cache-hit ratio
  • Free log-file space
  • Number of:
    • databases
    • active users
    • logged-in users
    • deadlocks per second
    • transactions per second
    • database reads
    • database writes
    • flush waits
    • latch waits
    • full scans
    • Transaction log growth
    • Transaction log shrinking

Oracle

  • Table space:available free space
  • available continuous free space
  • table space fragmentation
  • status of table space
  • status of rollback segments and waits in them
  • status of data file(s)
  • Status of individual tables:
    • amount of extents
    • amount of chained rows
  • SGA (System Global Area):
    • buffer cache hit ratio
    • dictionary cache hit ratio
    • library cache hit ratio
    • available free memory
    • sort ratio, disk vs. memory
  • Oracle users sessions:
    • number of connected users to the database through SQL Net
    • amount of memory consumed by session
  • Oracle internal alerts through alertlogfile:
    • license high watermark
    • internal error messages
    • Redo log contention
  • Database objects state:
    • objects with invalid state (triggers, procedures and views)
    • invalid indexes
    • database objects that cannot expand
    • Oracle internal resource monitoring
    • Multiple Oracle server monitoring
    • DB knowledge base
  • Hint Assistance/Editor:
    • easy to extend the Database Assistance Knowledge Base being used by operators and administrators when retrieving/ analyzing the Oracle health report.