Top DB Objects

The Top DB Objects subsection lists the database objects (such as tables and indexes) that accounted for the highest percentages of sampled session activity.

The example in Figure 8-6 shows that the hr.departments and hr.employees tables account for a high percentage of activity. Enqueue waits are waits for locks. In this example, the wait is for the TM (table) lock. Sometimes these waits indicate unindexed foreign key constraints. The buffer busy waits event records waits for a buffer to become available. These waits indicate that multiple processes are attempting to concurrently access the same buffers in the buffer cache.