常用的Oracle x$ Tables

x$bh

Information on buffer headers.

Contains a record (the buffer header) for each block in the buffer cache.

This select statement lists how many blocks are Available, Free and Being Used.

<span style="color:#444444">select count(*), State from (
    select <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/decode.html" href="http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/decode.html">decode</a> (state, 
       0, 'Free',
       1, decode (lrba_seq,
          0, 'Available',
             'Being Used'),
       3, 'Being Used',
          state) State
     from x$bh )
    group by state
</span>

The meaning of state:

0	FREE	no valid block image
1	XCUR	a current mode block, exclusive to this instance
2	SCUR	a current mode block, shared with other instances
3	CR	a consistent read (stale) block image
4	READ	buffer is reserved for a block being read from disk
5	MREC	a block in media recovery mode
6	IREC	a block in instance (crash) recovery mode

The meaning of tch: tch is the touch count. A high touch count indicates that the buffer is used often. Therefore, it will probably be at the head of the MRU list. See also touch count.

The meaning of tim: touch time.

class represents a value designated for the use of the block.

lru_flag

set_ds maps to addr on x$kcbwds.

le_addr can be outer joined on x$le.le_addr.

flag is a bit array.

Bit	if set
0	Block is dirty
4	temporary block
9 or 10	ping
14	stale
16	direct
524288 (=0x80000)	Block was read in a full table scan	See this link

 

x$kcbwbpd

Buffer pool descriptor, the base table for v$buffer_pool.

How is the buffer cache split between the default, the recycle and the keep buffer pool.

x$kcbwds

Set descriptor, see also x$kcbwbpd

The column id can be joined with v$buffer_pool.id.

The column bbwait corresponds to the buffer busy waits wait event.

Information on working set buffers

addr can be joined with x$bh.set_ds.

set_id will be between lo_setid and hi_setid in v$buffer_pool for the relevant buffer pool.

x$kccle

Controlfile logfile entry. Use

<span style="color:#444444">select max(lebsz) from x$kccle
</span>

to find out the size of a log block. The log block size is the unit for the following init params: log_checkpoint_interval, _log_io_size, and max_dump_file_size.

x$kcccp

Checkpoint Progress:

The column cpodr_bno displays the current redo block number. Multiplied with the OS Block Size (usually 512), it returns the amount of bytes of redo currently written to the redo logs. Hence, this number is reset at each log switch.

k$kcccp can (together with x$kccle) be used to monitor the progress of the writing of online redo logs. The following query does this.

<span style="color:#444444">select
  le.leseq                        "Current log sequence No",
  100*cp.cpodr_bno/le.lesiz       "Percent Full",
  cp.cpodr_bno                    "Current Block No",
  le.lesiz                        "Size of Log in Blocks"
from
  x$kcccp cp,
  x$kccle le
where
  LE.leseq =CP.cpodr_seq
  and bitand(le.leflg,24)=8;
</span>

bitand(le.leflg,24)=8 makes sure we get the current log group

How much Redo is written by Oracle uses a variation of this SQL statement to track how much redo is written by different DML Statements.

x$kgllk

This table lists all held and requested library object locks for all sessions. It is more complete than v$lock.

The column kglnaobj displays the first 80 characters of the name of the object.

<span style="color:#444444">select 
  kglnaobj, kgllkreq
from 
  x$kgllk x join <a data-cke-saved-href="http://qiuyb.itpub.net/dynamic_performance_views.html#session" href="http://qiuyb.itpub.net/dynamic_performance_views.html#session">v$session</a> s on 
    s.saddr = x.kgllkses;
</span>

kgllkreq = 0 means, the lock is held, while kgllkreq > 0 means that the lock is requested.

x$kqfco

This table has an entry for each column of the x$tables and can be joined with x$kqfta.

The column kqfcosiz indicates the size (in bytes?) of the columns.

<span style="color:#444444">select
  t.kqftanam "Table Name",
  c.kqfconam "Column Name",
  c.kqfcosiz "Column Size"
from
  x$kqfta t,
  x$kqfco c
where
  t.indx = c.kqfcotab
</span>

x$kqfta

It seems that all x$table names can be retrieved with the following query.

<span style="color:#444444">select kqftanam from x$kqfta;
</span>

This table can be joined with x$kqfco which contains the columns for the tables:

<span style="color:#444444">select
  t.kqftanam "Table Name",
  c.kqfconam "Column Name"
from
  x$kqfta t,
  x$kqfco c
where
  t.indx = c.kqfcotab
</span>

x$ksmlru

Memory least recently used

Whenever a select is performed on x$ksmlru, its content is reset!

This table show which memory allocations in the shared pool caused the throw out of the biggest memory chunks since it was last queried.

x$ksmmem

This 'table' seems to allow to address (that is read (write????)) every byte in the SGA. Since the size of the SGA equals the size of select sum(value) from v$sga, the following query must return 0 (at least on a four byte architecture. Don't know about 8 bytes.)

<span style="color:#444444">select 
  (select sum(value)  from <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/misc/dynamic_performance_views.html#sga" href="http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/misc/dynamic_performance_views.html#sga">v$sga</a>  ) -
  (select 4*count(*) from x$ksmmem) "Must be Zero!"
from 
  dual;
</span>

x$ksppcv2

Contains the value kspftctxvl for each parameter found in x$ksppi. Determine if this value is the default value with the column kspftctxdf.

x$ksppi

This table contains a record for all documented and undocumented (starting with an underscore) parameters. select ksppinm from x$ksppi to show the names of all parameters. Join indx+1 with x$ksppcv2.kspftctxpn.

x$ksqst

Enqueue management statistics by type.

ksqstwat: The number of wait for the enqueue statistics class.
ksqstwtim: Cumulated waiting time. This column is selected when v$enqueue_stat.cum_wait_time is selected.

The types of classes are:

BL	Buffer Cache Management
CF	Controlfile Transaction
CI	Cross-instance call invocation
CU	Bind Enqueue
DF	Datafile
DL	Direct Loader index creation
DM	Database mount
DP	???
DR	Distributed Recovery
DX	Distributed TX
FB	acquired when formatting a range of bitmap blocks far ASSM segments. id1=ts#, id2=relative dba
FS	File Set
IN	Instance number
IR	Instance Recovery
IS	Instance State
IV	Library cache invalidation
JD	Something to do with dbms_job
JQ	Job queue
KK	Redo log kick
LA..LP	Library cache lock
MD	enqueue for Change data capture materialized view log (gotten internally for DDL on a snapshot log) id1=object# of the snapshot log.
MR	Media recovery
NA..NZ	Library cache pin
PF	Password file
PI	Parallel slaves
PR	Process startup
PS	Parallel slave synchronization
SC	System commit number
SM	SMON
SQ	Sequence number enqueue
SR	Synchronized replication
SS	Sort segment
ST	Space management transaction
SV	Sequence number value
SW	Suspend writes enqueue gotten when someone issues alter system suspend|resume
TA	Transaction recovery
UL	User defined lock
UN	User name
US	Undo segment, serialization
WL	Redo log being written
XA	Instance attribute lock
XI	Instance registration lock
XR	Acquired for alter system quiesce restricted

x$ksusd

Contains a record for all statistics.

x$ktcxb

The SGA transaction table.

x$kttvs

Lists save undo for each tablespace: The column kttvstnm is the name of the tablespace that has saved undo. The column is null otherwise.

x$ktuxe

Kernel transaction, undo transaction entry

x$kvis

Has (among others) a row containing the db block size:

<span style="color:#444444"> select kvisval from x$kvis where kvistag = 'kcbbkl'
</span>

x$le

Lock element: contains an entry for each PCM lock held for the buffer cache. x$le can be left outer joined to x$bh on le_addr.

x$xssinfo

A perlscript to find x$ tables

<span style="color:#444444">#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

open O, ("/appl/oracle/product/9.2.0.2/bin/oracle");
open F, (">x");

my $l;
my $p = ' ' x 40;
my %x;

while (read (O,$l,10000)) {
  $l = $p.$l;

  foreach ($l =~ /(x$w{3,})/g) {
   $x{$_}++;
  }

  $p = substr ($l,-40);
}

foreach (sort keys %x) {
  print F "$_n";
}</span>