Getting Most Out of Oracle 8i/9i Statspack Word Count: 1076 Summary: Oracle Dba, Statspack, Oracle 10g, Oracle Tuning, Oracle Performance Keywords: Oracle Dba, Statspack, Oracle 10g, Oracle Tuning, Oracle Performance Article Body: Statspack is a set of performance monitoring and reporting utilities provided by Oracle for Oracle8i and above. A user is automatically created by the installation script - this user, PERFSTAT, owns all objects needed by this package. For more information about Statspack, read the documentation in file $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/spdoc.txt. Install Statspack To install the package, either change to the ORACLE_HOME rdbms/admin directory, or fully specify the ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory when calling the installation script, SPCREATE. To run the installation script, you must use SQL*Plus and connect as a user with SYSDBA privilege. For example, start SQL*Plus, then: On UNIX : SunOS/HP UX/Linux SQL> CONNECT / AS SYSDBA SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/spcreate@%ORACLE_HOME%rdbmsadminspcreate @?/rdbms/admin/spreport.sqlhttp://turkiyespot.com/OracleDbaSupport.co.uk</a>">http://turkiyespot.com/OracleDbaSupport.co.uk</a></a> is a blog site of Sagar Patil, an independent oracle consultant with a great understanding of how the Oracle database engine & Oracle Applications work together. I am an Oracle Certified RAC DBA with over ten years experience supporting Production and Development instances of Oracle databases. - Expert in building 10g RAC systems as well as rman, data guard backup and recovery strategies for production, test and development systems. - Instructor for developers on Oracle architecture, Oracle9i /10g features, tuning methodologies, database replication, PL/SQL and Oracle Http Server. - User of Statspack, SQL Trace, OEM Performance Manager, Quest Central, Quest Foglight, Quest SQL impact, Bennchamark factory, Quest SQL optimizer, TOAD and custom scripts. - Writer of detailed standards & practices for Oracle installs, upgrades, tuning & backups on Oracle Databases and PL/SQL.Developer, designer and implementer of Disaster recovery backup Procedures - Leader on major projects through all phases of development, testing and Support I can be hired on a short term notice, to handle strategy, design, implementation, trouble-shooting, DBA cover, remote monitoring, and training. Please visit www.oracledbasupport.co.uk for your oracle DBA needs.