RE: looking for thoughts/advice on AWR_REPORT_HTML and UTL_SMTP

From: Administrator User <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 06:06:43 +0000
Message-ID: <CE70217733273F49A8A162EE074F64D90B2335_at_exmbx06.thus.corp>

You didn't say which version of Oracle, and that could be relevant.

I ran your select statement from SQL*Plus, and then called your procedure from SQL*Plus. In 11.1.0.7 the change in "db block gets" (to pick just one of the more obvious stats) was dramatic, so it's possible that there's some feature of the simple concatenation of LOBs that makes a difference.

I wrote something about a similar anomaly a few years ago, although the strategy for improvement doesn't help: http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/concatenating-lobs/

You might try explicit use of dbms_lob.create_temporary_lob (with the cache attribute) and dbms_lob.wrte_append() in case it makes a difference - but I suspect that's what your code is doing under the covers anyway.

Regards
Jonathan Lewis

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Subject: looking for thoughts/advice on AWR_REPORT_HTML and UTL_SMTP

I figured out how to send attachments using UTL_SMTP (from code found on the web) and the code I'm using uses a clob variable to build the attachment. So I pieced together a function to build a clob from DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY.AWR_REPORT_HTML and call that function from my mail procedure.

This works surprisingly well to email me a daily AWR report (for a specific window of time - nightly batch cycle) *yet* the performance is slow to build the clob.

I had looked for a way to read the AWR_REPORT_HTML results directly into an attachment but I couldn't figure it out (being very non-proficient in pl/sql) so I was wondering if there was a better way to do this? (To capture the results of AWR_REPORT_HTML and mail them as an attachment).

I was thinking I should probably use a bulk collect here perhaps? Or am I overthinking this?

Here's my clob function (just for proof of concept):

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION html_clob

   RETURN CLOB
IS

   p_attach_clob CLOB := NULL;

   CURSOR c1
   IS

      SELECT
             output
      FROM
             TABLE (sys.DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY.awr_report_html (99999999,
                                                                  1,
                                                                  20003,
                                                                  20011));

BEGIN
   FOR rec IN c1
   LOOP
      p_attach_clob := p_attach_clob ||chr(13)||chr(10)|| rec.output;    END LOOP;    RETURN p_attach_clob;
END;
/

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