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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849682602
Pages 542 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ciro Fiorillo Ciro Fiorillo
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Ciro Fiorillo is an IT professional and consultant with experience of more than a decade in different roles (developer, analyst, DBA, project manager, data and software architect) among software industries. He has worked on different technologies and architectures, such as Oracle, SQL Server, Delphi, C# and .NET Framework, C/C++, Java, PHP, COBOL, Fortran, and Tibco. Ciro is currently employed as Lead Software and Data Architect with FinWin Srl, a software house specializing in banking and loans applications. As a freelancer he writes articles for websites and printed magazines about software and computing, participates in workshops, and teaches C++ and Fortran parallel programming with Intel Software tools. Ciro can be reached at ciro@cirofiorillo.com.
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Starting with Performance Tuning 2. Optimizing Application Design 3. Optimizing Storage Structures 4. Optimizing SQL Code 5. Optimizing Sort Operations 6. Optimizing PL/SQL Code 7. Improving the Oracle Optimizer 8. Other Optimizations 9. Tuning Memory 10. Tuning I/O 11. Tuning Contention Dynamic Performance Views A Summary of Oracle Packages Used for Performance Tuning Index

Chapter 1. Starting with Performance Tuning

Performance tuning is a complex process, which requires a deep knowledge of both physical and logical database structures. In this chapter, we will introduce the process and methodology to adopt in performance tuning an Oracle Database, covering the following recipes:

  • Reviewing the performance tuning process

  • Exploring the example database

  • Acquiring data using a data dictionary and dynamic performance views

  • Analyzing data using Statspack report

  • Diagnosing performance issues using the alert log

  • Analyzing data using Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)

  • Analyzing data using Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)

  • A working example

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Ciro Fiorillo is an IT professional and consultant with experience of more than a decade in different roles (developer, analyst, DBA, project manager, data and software architect) among software industries. He has worked on different technologies and architectures, such as Oracle, SQL Server, Delphi, C# and .NET Framework, C/C++, Java, PHP, COBOL, Fortran, and Tibco. Ciro is currently employed as Lead Software and Data Architect with FinWin Srl, a software house specializing in banking and loans applications. As a freelancer he writes articles for websites and printed magazines about software and computing, participates in workshops, and teaches C++ and Fortran parallel programming with Intel Software tools. Ciro can be reached at ciro@cirofiorillo.com.
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