
I was managing an environment where we needed to investigate the redo log switch frequency in our environment due to some graph spikes visualized using Grafana dashboards. A simple SELECT command using the view V$LOG_HISTORY is required to accomplish this goal. Therefore, below is presented this SQL SELECT command and the output:
SQL> COL DAY FORMAT a15; COL HOUR FORMAT a4; COL TOTAL FORMAT 999; SELECT TO_CHAR(FIRST_TIME,'YYYY-MM-DD') DAY, TO_CHAR(FIRST_TIME,'HH24') HOUR, COUNT(*) TOTAL_FILES FROM V$LOG_HISTORY GROUP BY TO_CHAR(FIRST_TIME,'YYYY-MM-DD'),TO_CHAR(FIRST_TIME,'HH24') ORDER BY TO_CHAR(FIRST_TIME,'YYYY-MM-DD'),TO_CHAR(FIRST_TIME,'HH24') ASC; .... DAY HOUR TOTAL_FILES --------------- ---- ----- 2023-04-16 19 32 2023-04-16 20 29 2023-04-16 21 24 2023-04-16 22 31 2023-04-16 23 25 2023-04-17 00 24 2023-04-17 01 642 2023-04-17 02 94 2023-04-17 03 26 2023-04-17 04 180 2023-04-17 05 56 DAY HOUR TOTAL --------------- ---- ----- 2023-04-17 06 24 2023-04-17 07 45 2023-04-17 08 28 2023-04-17 09 33 2023-04-17 10 30 2023-04-17 11 3 2778 rows selected.
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