Friday, September 23, 2011

GATHER_STATS_JOB is removed in 11g


GATHER_STATS_JOB is removed in 11g

Oracle Database 10g introduced the concept automated maintenance task execution during maintenance windows implemented via a WEEKNIGHT_WINDOW and WEEKEND_WINDOW schedule. This included statistics collection by means of the GATHER_STATS_JOB.


In Oracle Database 11g, the WEEKNIGHT_WINDOW and WEEKEND_WINDOW schedules (defined in Oracle Database 10g) are replaced with daily maintenance windows (such as  SUNDAY_WINDOW, MONDAY_WINDOW etc). These were replaced in order to add increased flexibility and manageability. One can query dba_scheduler_windows to check the window definitions.


Automatic Maintenance Tasks (including the automated Optimizer Statistics Gathering task) are defined to execute within these daily windows.



'Automatic Maintenance Tasks Management ' is an 11g new feature and was implemented to increase the flexibility of statistics collection and to avoid potential resourcing issue when maintenance jobs run alongside user operations.  Maintenance operations can potentially use a lot of resource which may, in extreme cases, affect other jobs. To address this, in 11g, maintenance operations are closely linked to resource manager to manage the resources that are used and share them more efficiently.



From the
Oracle Database New Features Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1)
Part Number B28279-03

"This feature ensures that work during maintenance operations is not affected and that user activity gets the necessary resources to complete."

By spreading the workload over multiple weeknights and managing the resource usage, this feature provides the flexibility to allow maintenance jobs to complete in a timely fashion and for user operations to be unaffected.




1 comment:

Sameer said...

SELECT client_name, status FROM dba_autotask_operation;

the above query can be used to check the status of stats collection in 11g .