On Demand Capture of Database Application Environmental Resources

摘要

A method and apparatus for tracking a plurality of database resource consumers is provided. A request is received from a job for a database resource of a plurality of resources. Based on the request, a database resource allocation amount for the job is updated. The database resource allocation amount specifies an amount of the database resource allocated to the job. It is determined whether the job is a primary consumer for the resource. A primary consumer is defined according to a consumption of the database resource relative to other database resource consumers. The determining is based on the database resource amount allocated to the job; and a respective database resource amount allocated to each of the plurality of database resource consumers. Upon determining that the job is one of the plurality of primary consumers, the job is added to a stored list identifying the primary consumers for the database resource.