* For Oracle Database 10g and later, an additional section shows the operating system CPU utilization.

As you can see, this report pulls together a lot of information, consolidating and formatting it to give analysts a jump-start in their ORTAs.

The first section shown in Figure 2-15 provides a number of workload metrics common to the Load Profile section in both Statspack and AWR. This information is useful when comparing different response-time snapshots. Keep in mind that a decrease in the response time is to be expected if the workload decreases. To ensure you don't fall into the trap of thinking the system is performing better, you need to know the snapshot workloads.