APPLIES TO:
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.0.7 and later
Oracle Applications DBA - Version 12.1.3 to 12.1.3 [Release 12.1]
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
SYMPTOMS
Optimizer Statistics & AWR tables snapshots are not being purged automatically. Due to that, the tables & indexes
are accumulating more and more rows and the segments associated with these tables & indexes become very large
in SYSAUX Tablespace.
CHANGES
CAUSE
The Statistics of Optimizer Statistics History tables & AWR snapshots was not automatically purged. Due to that, the
SYSAUX Tablespace grows very large.
SOLUTION
We have to manually purge the Optimizer Statistics, split the partitions of AWR objects and purge the AWR Snapshots
manually.
1.) Run the below script to check the current space usage of Optimizer Statistics Histogram & AWR tables, its relevant
indexes in SYSAUX tablespace.
SQL> conn / as sysdba
SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/awrinfo.sql
Output is written to awrinfo.lst in the current working directory
2.) Check the statistics availablility from Optimizer Statistics Histogram table by number of days.
SQL> select systimestamp - min(savtime) from sys.wri$_optstat_histgrm_history;
The query will return a result similar to the followiing:
SYSTIMESTAMP-MIN(SAVTIME)
----------------------------
+000000099 22:30:28.418491
3.) Purge the Statistics by altering the number of days. i.e for this case the number of days are 7, it will purge stats more than 7 days old
SQL> exec dbms_stats.purge_stats(sysdate - 7);
4.) Check the partition details for the table 'WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY' before split.
SQL> set lines 150
SQL> col SEGMENT_NAME for a30
SQL> col PARTITION_NAME for a50
SQL> SELECT owner, segment_name, partition_name, segment_type, bytes/1024/1024/1024 Size_GB FROM
dba_segments WHERE segment_name='WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY';
5.) Split the AWR partitions so that there is more chance of the smaller partition being purged:
SQL> alter session set "_swrf_test_action" = 72;
Note : The above command will split partitions for ALL partitioned AWR objects. It also initiates a single split;
it does not need to be disabled and will need to be repeated if multiple splits are required.
6.) Check the partition details for the table 'WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY' after split.
SQL> set lines 150
SQL> col SEGMENT_NAME for a30
SQL> col PARTITION_NAME for a50
SQL> SELECT owner, segment_name, partition_name, segment_type, bytes/1024/1024/1024 Size_GB FROM
dba_segments WHERE segment_name='WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY';
Note : With smaller partitions it is expected that some will be automatically removed when the retention period
of all the rows within each partition is reached.
You can purge the statistics based on the snapshot range. Depending on the snapshots chosen, this may
remove data that has not yet reached retention limit
so this may not be suitable for all cases.
The following output shows the low and high snapshot_id in each partition.
set serveroutput on
declare
CURSOR cur_part IS
SELECT partition_name from dba_tab_partitions
WHERE table_name = 'WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY';
query1 varchar2(200);
query2 varchar2(200);
TYPE partrec IS RECORD (snapid number, dbid number);
TYPE partlist IS TABLE OF partrec;
Outlist partlist;
begin
dbms_output.put_line('PARTITION NAME SNAP_ID DBID');
dbms_output.put_line('--------------------------- ------- ----------');
for part in cur_part loop
query1 := 'select min(snap_id), dbid from sys.WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY partition ('||part.partition_name||')
group by dbid';
execute immediate query1 bulk collect into OutList;
if OutList.count > 0 then
for i in OutList.first..OutList.last loop
dbms_output.put_line(part.partition_name||' Min '||OutList(i).snapid||' '||OutList(i).dbid);
end loop;
end if;
query2 := 'select max(snap_id), dbid from sys.WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY partition ('||part.partition_name||')
group by dbid';
execute immediate query2 bulk collect into OutList;
if OutList.count > 0 then
for i in OutList.first..OutList.last loop
dbms_output.put_line(part.partition_name||' Max '||OutList(i).snapid||' '||OutList(i).dbid);
dbms_output.put_line('---');
end loop;
end if;
end loop;
end;
/
7.) From the result of the above query purge the AWR snapshots based on the low & high snap_id's.
SQL> exec DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY.DROP_SNAPSHOT_RANGE( low_snap_id IN NUMBER,high_snap_id IN NUMBER,
dbid IN NUMBER DEFAULT NULL);
8.) Run the below script to crosscheck whether the space usage of Optimizer Statistics Histogram & AWR tables, its relevant
indexes in SYSAUX tablespace has reduced or not.
SQL> conn sys as sysdba
SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/awrinfo.sql
Output is written to awrinfo.lst in the current working directory
Note: Compare the awrinfo.lst output of step 8 with step 1 and make sure the space usage of Optimizer Statistics Histogram
& AWR tables has reduced accordingly.