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Using materialized query tables When you have a deep history of data (for example, more than 10 million Monitoring Context instances), the response time for dashboard navigation in dimensional reports can degrade significantly. <strong>IBM</strong> Business Monitor V8.0 uses Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1.1 for its dimensional reports. Business Monitor provides a tool that can be used with DB2 to generate cube summary tables that pre-compute the values of measures for known dimensional member values. Such values include the value of the “average loan amount” measure based on values for the “customer loyalty level” dimension, say, for bronze, silver, and gold customers. DB2 calls these tables materialized query tables, and Business Monitor provides a scheduled service to refresh them on a periodic basis. For details about using this capability, see the following information center topic: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dmndhelp/v7r5mx/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm. wbpm.mon.admin.doc/data/enable_cubesumtable_refresh.html 4.15 Oracle-specific database tuning As with DB2, providing a comprehensive Oracle database tuning guide is beyond the scope of this paper. However, several guidelines can assist in helping you improve the performance of Business Process Manager products when used in Oracle environments. This section describes the and provides pointers to more detailed information. In addition, the following references are useful: ► Oracle Database 11g Release 1 documentation (includes a performance tuning guide): http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/homepage ► Oracle Architecture and Tuning on AIX v2.20 white paper: http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP100883 4.15.1 Updating database statistics Oracle provides an automatic statistics-gathering facility, which is enabled by default. One approach for updating statistics manually on all tables in a schema is to use the dbms_stats utility. For more information, see the Oracle product documentation. 4.15.2 Correctly setting buffer cache sizes Oracle provides automatic memory management for buffer caches. For more information about configuring automatic memory management and for guidance on manually setting buffer cache sizes, see the following references: ► For Oracle 10g R2 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14211/memory.htm#i29118 ► For Oracle 11g R1 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28274/memory.htm#i29118 88 <strong>IBM</strong> Business Process Manager V8.0 Performance Tuning and Best Practices
4.15.3 Maintaining correct table indexing The SQL Access Advisor, available from the Enterprise Manager, provides suggestions for schema changes, including changes to indexes. You can find the SQL Access Advisor by starting at the database home page, then following the Advisor Central link in the Related Links section at the bottom of the page. In our internal evaluation, we found that the following indexes are often helpful for BPMN business processes. Consider these indexes as a starting point for defining indexes, and add more indexes as described previously. ► create index PS.TASK_BIS on PS.LSW_TASK("BPD_INSTANCE_ID","STATUS"); ► create index PDW.TASK_IDS on PDW.LSW_TASK("SYSTEM_ID","SYSTEM_TASK_ID"); ► create index PS.TASK_UGI on PS.LSW_TASK("USER_ID","GROUP_ID","TASK_ID"); ► create index PS.TASK_UI on PS.LSW_TASK("USER_ID","TASK_ID"); 4.15.4 Sizing log files appropriately Unlike DB2, Oracle performs an expensive checkpoint operation when switching logs. The checkpoint involves writing all dirty pages in the buffer cache to disk. Therefore, an important steps is to make the log files large enough that switching occurs infrequently. Applications that generate a high volume of log traffic need larger log files to achieve this goal. 4.15.5 Using the Oracle SQL Tuning Advisor for long running SQL statements If analysis shows that a particular SQL statement is taking a long time to execute, it might be because the Oracle database is executing the SQL in a non-optimal manner. The Oracle SQL Tuning Advisor can be used to optimize the performance of long running SQL statements. Use the following methodology to identify, and improve, the performance of these SQL statements: ► ► ► 4.15.6 File system tuning Identify long-running SQL statements by using an AWR report, or through the Event Manager. Run the SQL Tuning Advisor against the long-running SQL statements. Evaluate and accept (as is appropriate) the recommendations from the SQL Tuning Advisor. For redo logs and control files on AIX, use a file system with agblksize parameter set to 512. For other file systems, use the default agblksize. 4.15.7 Creating table spaces When creating table spaces, consider minimizing the number of table space expansions (extends) that occur by setting large initial and autoextend sizes. This step can help produce fewer spikes in database utilization under peak load. Alternatively, manually extend the table spaces during periods of relatively low activity to mitigate this issue. Chapter 4. Performance tuning and configuration 89
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