Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle

Database optimizer runs very fast and must select the best execution plan for a query within a fraction of seconds.Due to time constraint (under normal query execution), sometimes optimizer will choose wrong execution plan for a query. We can force to run database optimizer to run a tuning mode so that optimizer can perform more analysis on a given SQL.

• Create tuning task

• Execute tuning task

• Status of tuning task

• Display recommendations

• Drop tuning task

Some of the analysis performed by the optimizer when it is running in tuning mode are

• Statistical analysis

• Access path analysis

• SQL structure analysis

Create tuning task

First of all get the sql id of the statement that you would like to tune. You can get this information via AWR report or other database reports

DECLARE
  l_sql_tune_task_id  VARCHAR2(100);
BEGIN
  l_sql_tune_task_id := DBMS_SQLTUNE.create_tuning_task (
            sql_id      => 'fxdbrc4jhqn5r',
            scope       => DBMS_SQLTUNE.scope_comprehensive,
            time_limit  => 60,
            task_name   => 'fxdbrc4jhqn5r_tuning_task',
            description => 'Tuning task for statement fxdbrc4jhqn5r.');
  DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('l_sql_tune_task_id: ' || l_sql_tune_task_id);
END;
/

Execute tuning task

Once the task is defined, you must execute it

EXEC DBMS_SQLTUNE.execute_tuning_task(task_name => 'fxdbrc4jhqn5r_tuning_task');

Status of tuning task

Once you execute the tuning task, you should be able to find the status of the task

SELECT task_name, status 
FROM dba_advisor_log 
WHERE task_name like 'fxdbrc4jhqn5r_tuning_task';

Display recommendations

Once the tuning task is executed successfully, the recommendations can be displayed using below

SET LONG 10000;
SET PAGESIZE 1000
SET LINESIZE 200
SELECT DBMS_SQLTUNE.report_tuning_task('fxdbrc4jhqn5r_tuning_task') AS recommendations FROM dual;
SET PAGESIZE 24

Drop tuning task

Once you get the recommendations, you can drop the tuning task

BEGIN
  DBMS_SQLTUNE.drop_tuning_task (task_name => 'fxdbrc4jhqn5r_tuning_task');
END;
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