Quantifying the impact of wasteful operations on a database system is
provided. One or more operations that are determined to be wasteful are
received. The impact of the wasteful operations on performance in a
database may then be quantified. The database is monitored to determine
when a wasteful operation is being performed. When a wasteful operation
is detected, a time value is recorded of the time spent on processing the
wasteful operation. The time value is stored and used to quantify an
impact of a performance problem in a database. The time value may be
stored and associated with other time values that are recorded for the
same wasteful operation. Thus, the impact of wasteful operations that are
performed and processed in a database may be determined.