By Franck Pachot
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AWR collects segment statistics, and this can be used to quickly understand an abnormal database growth. Here is a script I use to get, from the AWR history, the segments that have grown by more than 1% of the database size, in one hour.
First I must mention that this uses only the part of AWR which is not subject to additional option. This even works in Standard Edition:
NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
control_management_pack_access string NONE
So here is the query, easy to modify with different threshold:
set echo on pagesize 1000
set sqlformat ansiconsole
select * from (
select
round(sum(SPACE_ALLOCATED_DELTA)/1024/1024/1024) GBYTE_ALLOCATED
,trunc(max(end_interval_time),'hh24') snap_time
,round(sum(SPACE_ALLOCATED_DELTA)/1024/1024/1024*24*(cast(max(end_interval_time) as date)-cast(min(begin_interval_time) as date))) "GB/hour"
,owner,object_name,subobject_name,object_type
from DBA_HIST_SEG_STAT join DBA_HIST_SEG_STAT_OBJ using (dbid,ts#,obj#,dataobj#) join dba_hist_snapshot using(dbid,snap_id)
group by trunc(end_interval_time,'hh24'),owner,object_name,subobject_name,object_type
) where "GB/hour" > (select sum(bytes)/1024/1024/1024/1e2 "one percent of database size" from dba_data_files)
order by snap_time
;
and the sample output, showing only the snapshots and segments where more than 1% of the database size has been allocated within one hour:
GBYTE_ALLOCATED SNAP_TIME GB/hour OWNER OBJECT_NAME SUBOBJECT_NAME OBJECT_TYPE
--------------- --------- ------- ----- ----------- -------------- -----------
4 25-OCT-2017 19:00:00 4 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
9 25-OCT-2017 20:00:00 9 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
9 25-OCT-2017 21:00:00 9 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
3 25-OCT-2017 22:00:00 3 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
5 26-OCT-2017 00:00:00 5 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
6 26-OCT-2017 01:00:00 6 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
7 26-OCT-2017 02:00:00 7 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
7 26-OCT-2017 03:00:00 7 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
7 26-OCT-2017 04:00:00 7 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
5 26-OCT-2017 05:00:00 5 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047762C00006$$ LOB
2 26-OCT-2017 06:00:00 2 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047719C00008$$ LOB
2 26-OCT-2017 06:00:00 2 BIGDATA SYS_LOB0000047710C00006$$ LOB
With this, it is easier to ask to the application owners if this growth is normal or not.