Oracle Database 11g R2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Description

Oracle's Database offers great performance, scalability, and many features for DBAs and developers. Due to a wide choice of technologies, successful applications are good candidates to run into performance issues and when a problem arises it's very difficult to identify the cause and the right solution to the problem.

The Oracle Database 11g R2 Performance Tuning Cookbook helps DBAs and developers to understand every aspect of Oracle Database that can affect performance. You will be guided through implementing the correct solution in a proactive way before problems arise, and how to diagnose issues on your Oracle database-based solutions.

This fast-paced book offers solutions starting from application design and development, through the implementation of well-performing applications, to the details of deployment and delivering best-performance databases.

With this book you will quickly learn to apply the right methodology to tune the performance of an Oracle Database, and to optimize application design and SQL and PL/SQL code. By following the real-world examples you will see how to store your data in correct structures and access and manipulate them at a lightning speed. You will learn to speed up sort operations, hack the optimizer and the data loading process, and diagnose and tune memory, I/O, and contention issues.

The purpose of this cookbook is to provide concise recipes, which will help you to build and maintain a very high-speed Oracle Database environment.

Effectively apply performance tuning principles with concise recipes

CONTENTS:

Preface

Chapter 1: Starting with Performance Tuning

Chapter 2: Optimizing Application Design

Chapter 3: Optimizing Storage Structures

Chapter 4: Optimizing SQL Code

Chapter 5: Optimizing Sort Operations

Chapter 6: Optimizing PL/SQL Code

Chapter 7: Improving the Oracle Optimizer

Chapter 8: Other Optimizations

Chapter 9: Tuning Memory

Chapter 10: Tuning I/O

Chapter 11: Tuning Contention

Appendix A: Dynamic Performance Views

Appendix B: A Summary of Oracle Packages Used for Performance Tuning

Index