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Oracle Blocking Sessions

This document discusses how to track blocking sessions in Oracle. It notes that STATSPACK and AWR do not track blocking sessions by default, but the ASH components can track blocking sessions for the past hour. It provides a script to check for blocking sessions every 5 minutes and trigger an alert procedure. It also includes a query to list blocking sessions and the sessions they are blocking, including the wait class and time spent waiting.

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Oracle Blocking Sessions

This document discusses how to track blocking sessions in Oracle. It notes that STATSPACK and AWR do not track blocking sessions by default, but the ASH components can track blocking sessions for the past hour. It provides a script to check for blocking sessions every 5 minutes and trigger an alert procedure. It also includes a query to list blocking sessions and the sessions they are blocking, including the wait class and time spent waiting.

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blocking session and waiting sessions. but you can use the extra-cost ASH components can track bhcking sessions for one hour into the past. As a blocking session alert mechanism, you can schedule a job to check every 5 minutes for a blocking session (using this script to \find blocking sessions with y$session) and then trigger a procedure to hcate the exact data block where the blocking/waiting occurred. This automated blocking tracing can then be e-nailed to the DBA for subsequent investigation and repair.

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Here is a query that gives us a JEt ofblocking sessions and the sessions that they are blocking:
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