Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Hardback

Description

What do you do when your database application isn't running fast enough? You troubleshoot, of course. Finding the slow part of an application is often the easy part of the battle. It's finding a solution that's difficult. Troubleshooting Oracle Performance helps by providing a systematic approach to addressing the underlying causes of poor database application performance.

* Written for developers by an application developer who has learned by doing
* Gives a systematic approach to solving database application performance problems
* Helps you plan for performance as you would for any other application requirementWhat you'll learn
* See how to treat and plan for performance as a basic application requirement.
* Identify performance problems using a systematic and repeatable approach.
* Configure your query optimizer to meet your application performance goals.
* Optimize table accesses, joins, and physical table layout.
* Read and recognize inefficient SQL execution plans.
* Reduce inefficiencies from too much procedural code. Who this book is for

For application developers and database administrators involved in troubleshooting performance problems of Oracle-based applications

CONTENTS:

Part 1 Foundations

Chapter 1 Performance Problems

Chapter 2 Key Concepts

Part 2 Identification

Chapter 3 Identifying Performance Problems

Part 3 Query Optimizer

Chapter 4 System and Object Statistics

Chapter 5 Configuring the Query Optimizer

Chapter 6 Execution Plans

Chapter 7 SQL Tuning Techniques

Part 4 Optimization

Chapter 8 Parsing

Chapter 9 Optimizing Data Access

Chapter 10 Optimizing Joins

Chapter 11 Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization

Chapter 12 Optimizing the Physical Design

Part 5 Appendixes

Appendix A Downloadable Files

Appendix B Bibliography

Index