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For years, SQL Plan Management was a powerful but somewhat manual tool in the DBA’s belt — capture baselines, evolve them, accept or reject new plans… rinse and repeat. It worked, but it required attention.With 23ai, Oracle takes a bold step toward self-driving databases: Automatic SQL Plan Management. The database now watches for regressions, evaluates…
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Short reminder, in the two previous articles I made up two test scenarios of delving into the Auto SQL Plan Management. In the first part I constructed some fairly obvious conditions for Automatic SQL Plan Management to operate — it worked exactly as expected.The choice was based on obvious metrics: lower CPU usage, fewer logical…