This article illustrates the wealth of I/O performance tuning information that Oracle 11gR2’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports provide, how to use that information to determine if any I/O performance bottlenecks actually exist, and how to form initial hypotheses to resolve those bottlenecks within the database’s underlying input/output (I/O) subsystem.

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