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Wednesday 11 January 2012

Useful SQL

I was observing high DFS lock handle wait during Siebel CRM performance testing  and i found below SQL very useful to understand the root cause of Watis.

Output of Query 1 will input to Query 2.

Query1:

SELECT CHR(to_char(bitand(p1,-16777216))/16777215)||CHR(to_char(bitand(p1, 16711680))/65535) "Lock Type",  to_char( bitand(p1, 65535) )    "Lock Mode"
FROM v$session_wait
WHERE event = 'DFS lock handle'
/
Lock Mode
------------------
SV


Query 2:
column name format a20
column type format a5
column DESCRIPTION  format a40
select type,name , description from V$lock_type where type='SV'
/

TYPE  NAME                 DESCRIPTION
----- -------------------- ----------------------------------------
SV    Sequence Ordering    Lock to ensure ordered sequence allocati
                                          on in RAC mode


when Query the V$lock_type we can clearly see type SV mean database having ordered sequence allocation issue in RAC mode.