21. Description of parameters

21.1. Database connection parameters

Table 21.1 Database connection parameters

Parameter

Description

JDBC driver

Select JDBC driver from the drop-down list to create a new database. For Red Database and Firebird JDBC driver Jaybird 5 is recommended.

Connection name

Database connection name

Server name

Database server host or IP address

Port

Port for database connection

Database file

Path to database file or alias

Username

Username of user in whose name the database will be created

Password

User password

Save password

Should password be saved for connecting to database

Encrypt password

Should password be stored in encrypted form

Encoding

Specifies default character set for string (character) values of the entire database.

Page size

Size of the database page in bytes. Valid values are 4096, 8192 and 16384.

21.2. Extended database connection parameters

This table lists some parameters for the Jaybird 5 driver:

Table 21.2 Extended database connection parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

isc_dpb_user_name

string

Name of the connecting user.

isc_dpb_password

string

User Password.

isc_dpb_sql_role_name

string

Role

isc_dpb_sql_dialect

byte

SQL dialect.

isc_dpb_process_id

int

Process ID.

isc_dpb_process_name

string

Process name.

isc_dpb_lc_ctype

string

Connection character encoding. This parameter tells database server what encoding should be used to send string values to client.

isc_dpb_connect_timeout

int

Connection timeout (in seconds).

isc_dpb_gss

-

Use trusted authentication Gss.

isc_dpb_num_buffers

int

Number of database pages to be cached.

isc_dpb_set_db_readonly

boolean

Set database to read-only mode.

isc_dpb_set_db_charset

string

Set character set for the database.

isc_dpb_max_inline_blob_size

-

Maximum size in bytes of inline blobs. A value of 0 disables transmission of inline blobs. Default 65535, maximum value 65535.

isc_dpb_max_blob_cache_size

-

Maximum size in bytes per connection of the inline blob cache. A value of 0 disables the cache. Disabling the cache does not disable transmission of inline blobs: set maxInlineBlobSize to 0 to disable transmission. Default 10485760 (10 MiB).

isc_dpb_set_db_sql_dialect

-

Set the SQL dialect of the database.

isc_dpb_parallel_workers

-

The number of parallel workers to use.

21.3. Parameters for adding a driver

Table 21.3 Parameters for adding a driver

Parameter

Description

Driver name

Driver name for identification

Description

Description of this driver

Database

Select DBMS for which this driver is used

JDBC URL

The URL address template for this JDBC driver. For example: jdbc:firebirdsql://[host]:[port]/[source].

Path

Path to jar file of JDBC driver

Class name

Class name of JDBC driver. Select the search button if the name is unknown and the system scans the jar file entered in the path field to find the driver class name

21.4. Trace manager configuration file settings

Table 21.4 Trace manager configuration file settings

Parameter

Description

log_security_incidents

Server security events (security incidents)

log_initfini/log_init

Events of start/stop of database logging

log_connections

Events of connection/disconnection to database

log_transactions

Transaction start and completion events

log_statement_prepare

Database query preparation events

log_statement_free

Database query release events

log_statement_start

Events of start execution of queries to database

log_statement_finish

Events of finish execution of queries to database

log_procedure_start

Events of start execution stored procedures

log_procedure_finish

Events of finish execution stored procedures

log_function_start

Events of start execution stored function

log_function_finish

Events of finish execution stored function

log_trigger_start

Trigger execution start events

log_trigger_finish

Trigger execution finish events

log_context

Events of context variable value changes

log_errors

Error logging

log_warnings

Warning logging

print_plan

Print query plans

print_perf

Print query execution statistics

log_blr_requests

Direct execution events of compiled queries in internal server view - BLR

print_blr

Content of BLR requests will be converted to text representation, otherwise it will remain in binary form

log_dyn_requests

Events of direct execution of compiled metadata change queries (DDL) in the internal server view - DYN

print_dyn

Content of DYN queries will be converted to text representation, otherwise it will remain in binary form

log_privilege_changes

Privilege change events

log_changes_only

Recording only those events that changed data in the database

print_stack_trace

Print stack of server function calls when an error event is terminated

log_auth_factors

Events of verification authentication factors

log_mandatory_access

Mandate access audit

log_record_mandatory_access

Events about mandate access to records

log_object_relabeling

Events of object label change

log_record_relabeling

Events of record label change

log_services

Connection/disconnection and service start events

log_service_query

Events of service queries

include_user_filter

Regular expression to which the user name must match

exclude_user_filter

Connections from users matching this regular expression will not be logged

include_process_filter

Regular expression to be matched by the name of the user process

exclude_process_filter

Connections from processes that match this regular expression will not be logged

include_filter

Regular expression in SQL syntax (SIMILAR TO), which must be matched by the text of SQL query.

exclude_filter

Regular expression in SQL syntax (SIMILAR TO), which must not be matched by the text of SQL query.

connection_id

Connection identifie on server that will be monitored

log_filename

Log file name

max_log_size

Maximum size of log files in megabytes. A value of 0 means unlimited size

time_threshold

Events whose execution time is less than specified time (in ms) will not be logged

max_sql_length

Maximum length of one SQL query record in log file, in bytes

max_blr_length

Maximum length of BLR query to be logged, in bytes

max_dyn_length

Maximum length of DYN-query to be logged, in bytes

max_arg_length

Maximum length of one query/procedure parameter in log file

max_arg_count

Maximum number of query/procedure parameters to be logged

21.5. Trace manager events table

Description of each column in events table is given below:

Table 21.5 Description of events table columns

Parameter

Description

NUM

Row number

TSTAMP

Time and date of event

ID_PROCESS

Process ID

ID_THREAD

Thread ID

EVENT_TYPE

Event type

FAILED

In case of unsuccessful or unauthorised attempt to execute query, the result FAILED or UNAUTHORIZED is logged

ID_SESSION

Session ID

NAME_SESSION

Session name

ID_SERVICE

Service ID

USERNAME

Username

PROTOCOL_CONNECTION

Connection protocol

CLIENT_ADDRESS

IP address or computer name

TYPE_QUERY_SERVICE

Service query type

OPTIONS_START_SERVICE

Options passed to service manager from client at start

ROLE

User role

DATABASE

Database name

CHARSET

Encoding

ID_CONNECTION

Connection ID

CLIENT_PROCESS

Client process

ID_CLIENT_PROCESS

Client process ID

ID_TRANSACTION

Transaction ID

LEVEL_ISOLATION

Isolation level

MODE_OF_BLOCK

Lock mode (WAIT or NO WAIT)

MODE_OF_ACCESS

Access mode

TIME_EXECUTION

Execution time (in ms)

COUNT_READS

Number of pages read from the disc

COUNT_WRITES

Number of pages written to disc

COUNT_FETCHES

Number of pages fetched from page cache

COUNT_MARKS

Number of pages modified in page cache

ID_STATEMENT

Query ID

RECORDS_FETCHED

Number of fetched records

STATEMENT_TEXT

Query content

PARAMETERS_TEXT

Query execution parameters

PLAN_TEXT

Query plan

TABLE_COUNTERS

Table counters

DECLARE_CONTEXT_VARIABLES

Name and value of context variable

EXECUTOR

Users, roles and database objects for which privileges have been granted

GRANTOR

User who grants privileges

PRIVILEGE

Assigned/revoked privilege

PRIVILEGE_OBJECT

Object for which the privilege is granted (revoked)

PRIVILEGE_USERNAME

User assigned the privilege

PRIVILEGE_ATTACHMENT

Connection ID

PRIVILEGE_TRANSACTION

Transaction ID

PROCEDURE_NAME

Procedure name

RETURN_VALUE

Return values of procedure

TRIGGER_INFO

<trigger_name> [FOR <table_name>] (ON <database event> | {BEFORE | AFTER} <table event or DDL event>)

SENT_DATA

Data passed to service manager

RECEIVED_DATA

Data received by service manager

ERROR_MESSAGE

Error message text

OLDEST_INTERESTING

Number of oldest interested transaction

OLDEST_ACTIVE

Oldest active transaction number

OLDEST_SNAPSHOT

Number of transaction that was active at the time the OAT transaction was started

NEXT_TRANSACTION

Next transaction number

SORT_MEMORY_USAGE_TOTAL

Total cache size (in bytes) allocated during the sorting process

SORT_MEMORY_USAGE_CACHED

RAM cache size (in bytes) allocated during the sorting process

SORT_MEMORY_USAGE_ON_DISK

Disc cache size

21.6. Trace analysis

Description of resulting table columns:

Table 21.6 Description of resulting table columns:

Parameter

Description

QUERY

Query text

COUNT

Query execution count

PLAN_COUNT

Query plan count

TOTAL_TIME

Total execution time in milliseconds

MIN_TIME

Minimum execution time in milliseconds

AVG_TIME

Average execution time in milliseconds

MAX_TIME

Maximum execution time in milliseconds

STD_DEV_TIME

Standard deviation of execution time

TOTAL_READ

Total pages read from disc

MIN_READ

Minimum number of pages read from disc

AVG_READ

Average number of pages read from disc

MAX_READ

Maximum number of pages read from disc

STD_DEV_READ

Standard deviation of number of pages read from disc

TOTAL_FETCH

Total number of pages read from page cache

MIN_FETCH

Minimum number of pages read from page cache

AVG_FETCH

Average number of pages read from page cache

MAX_FETCH

Maximum number of pages read from page cache

STD_DEV_FETCH

Standard deviation of number of pages read from page cache

TOTAL_WRITE

Total number of pages recorded on disc

MIN_WRITE

Minimum number of pages recorded on disc

AVG_WRITE

Average number of pages recorded on disc

MAX_WRITE

Maximum number of pages recorded on disc

STD_DEV_WRITE

Standard deviation of number of pages recorded on disc

TOTAL_MARK

Total number of pages edited in page cache

MIN_MARK

Minimum number of pages edited in page cache

AVG_MARK

Average number of pages edited in page cache

MAX_MARK

Maximum number of pages edited in page cache

STD_DEV_MARK

Standard deviation of number of pages edited in page cache

TOTAL_RSORT

Total RAM used for sorting (in bytes)

MIN_RSORT

Minimum RAM used for sorting (in bytes)

AVG_RSORT

Average RAM used for sorting (in bytes)

MAX_RSORT

Maximum RAM used for sorting (in bytes)

STD_DEV_RSORT

Standard deviation of RAM used for sorting

TOTAL_DSORT

Total temporary file size used in query (in bytes)

MIN_DSORT

Minimum temporary file size used in query (in bytes)

AVG_DSORT

Average size temporary files used in query (in bytes)

MAX_DSORT

Maximum temporary file size used in query (in bytes)

STD_DEV_DSORT

Standard deviation of temporary file size used in query

21.7. Database statistics

Statistics of data pages

Table 21.7 Statistics of data pages

Parameter

Description

name

Table name

primary pointer page

First page number of indirect pointers to pages storing table data

index root page

Page number, which is first page of index pointers to table indexes

pointer pages

Total indirect pointer pages to pages storing table data

data pages

Total pages that store table data. This count includes pages storing unconfirmed versions of records and garbage because gstat cannot distinguish them from each other

data page slots

Number of database page pointers contained in the pointer pages. Must be equal to number of data pages

primary pages

Number of pages equal to (Data pages - Secondary pages)

secondary pages

Number pages on which no primary versions of records are stored

swept pages

Number of pages that have only primary versions of records, and all of them were created by committed transactions. Such data pages should be skipped by sweep procedure

empty pages

Number of pages with no records

full pages

Number of full pages

big record pages

Number of pages that are filled with only one record

blob pages

Number of pages with blobs

average record length

Average size of a compressed record in bytes

total records

Total number of rows in table

average version length

Average length of old versions in bytes

total versions

Total number of old versions in table

max versions

Maximum chain of old versions to be recorded

average fill

Histogram of memory usage distribution for all pages allocated in table

total formats

Total formats in RDB$FORMATS table

used formats

Number of used formats

average fragment length

Average fragment size in bytes

total fragments

Number of fragments in all records

max fragments

Maximum number of fragments per record

average unpacked length

Average record size in bytes (not compressed)

compression ratio

Ratio of average uncompressed key length (Average prefix length + Average data length) to average compressed key length (Average key length).

blobs

Number of all blobs (level 0, 1 and 2)

total length

Blob size, in bytes

level <n>

Number of blobs per level

table size(without blobs)

Table size in bytes (data pages * page size). Calculated column

size with blobs

Aggregate size of table data (table size(without blobs) + blobs total length). Calculated column

size with blob pages

(table size(without blobs) + blob pages * page size). Calculated column

size with indices

Aggregate size of table data and aggregate size of all indices on table. Calculated using following formula:

\(X = S + \sum_{i=0}^{n} E_i\),

Ssize with blob pages;

n – number of indexes in table;

E – estimated index size in bytes (estimated full size).

range <percentage full>

Number of pages that are filled by specified percentage

Index statistics

Table 21.8 Index statistics

Parameter

Description

name

Index name

table name

Table name

real selectivity

Calculated using following formula: 1 / (nodes - totalDup)

average data length

Average length of each key in bytes. This is likely smaller than actual sum of column sizes because Red Database uses index compression to reduce the amount of data stored on an index sheet page

total dup

Total number of index duplicate rows

max dup

Number of nodes that have the highest number of duplicates. Will always be zero for unique indices. If the number is large compared to the number in total dup, it is a sign of low selectivity

root page

Index root page number

depth

Number of levels in index tree page. If the depth of the index page tree exceeds 3, access to records through the index will not be maximised. To reduce the depth of the index page tree, increase the page size. If increasing the page size does not reduce the depth, increase the page size again

leaf buckets

Number of the lowest level (leaf) pages in the index tree. These are pages that contain pointers to records. High-level pages contain indirect links.

leaf full size

Size of the lowest level (leaf) pages in the index tree (leaf buckets * page size). Calculated column

estimated full size

Approximate index size in bytes. Calculated using following formula:

\(N = L * (1+\frac{A}{P})^{D - 1}*P\)

N – approximate index size in bytes;

L – number of lowest level pages (leaf pages) in index tree (leaf buckets);

A – average node size in bytes (average node length);

P – average node size in bytes (average node length);

D – number of levels in index tree page (depth).

nodes

Total number of records indexed in the tree. Must be equal to the number of indexed rows in the tree, although the gstat report may include nodes that were deleted but not cleaned up in the garbage collection. May also include multiple items for records that have had their index key changed

average node length

Average node size in bytes

average key length

Average key size in bytes including compression. The length of each key is added 1 to 5 bytes depending on the key size and prefix. The average key size is then calculated

compression ratio

Average key and prefix length in bytes

average prefix length

Average size (in bytes) used by node prefixes

average data length

Average length of each key in bytes. This is likely smaller than the actual sum of column sizes, because Red Database uses index compression to reduce the amount of data stored on an index sheet page

clustering factor

It is a measure of how much I/O the database would perform if it had to read every row in the table by index, in index order. That is, it shows how ordered the rows in the table are by the index values. If the value is close to the total number of pages, then the table is very well ordered. In this case, index entries on the same page of the index sheet usually point to rows that are in the same data pages. If the value is close to the total number of rows, then the table is very disordered. In this case, it is unlikely that index entries on the same page of the index sheet point to the same data pages

ratio

Ratio of Clustering factor to the total number of nodes in the index

full size

Index size in bytes. Calculated by the formula: \(L * (1+\frac{A}{P})^{D - 1}*P\),

L – number of the lowest level pages (leaf pages) in the index tree (leaf buckets);

A – average node size in bytes (average node length);

P – database page size (page size);

D – number of levels in a page of index tree(depth).

Tablespace statistics

Table 21.9 Tablespace statistics

Parameter

Description

name

Tablespace name

full path

Path to tablespace file

table count

Number of tables in the tablespace

index count

Number of indexes in tablespace