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Oracle Active Session History (ASH)

Each second (?), the performance relevant figures for each active session are stored in memory.
ASH can be used for diagnosing performance problems.
ASH is an integral part of the database self-management framework.

See also

v$active_seession_history
v$ash_info shows some information about the Active Session History sampling process.
$ORACLE_HOME/admin/rdbms/ashrpt.sql is an SQL*Plus script to generate an ASH report.
oradebug dump ashdump

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