Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Shifting your Oracle Database into top gear takes a lot of know-how and fine-tuning ability. The 80+ recipes in this Cookbook will give you those skills along with the ability to troubleshoot if things starts running slowly.

Key Features

• Learn the right techniques to achieve best performance from the Oracle Database
• Avoid common myths and pitfalls that slow down the database
• Diagnose problems when they arise and employ tricks to prevent them
• Explore various aspects that affect performance, from application design to system tuning

Book Description

What you will learn

• Design applications that run at lightning speed
• Implement fast and scalable SQL and PL/SQL code
• Choose the correct structures to store the data and access them
• Optimize sort operations, such as order-by, Top-N queries, ranking, and set operators
• Help the optimizer to choose the right access plan to retrieve data at the best available speed
• Load data in the database at a faster speed by using the correct tools and options
• Tune the database memory to obtain maximum performance using available resources
• Tune the I/O operations, by designing a database over the I/O system
• Tune and reduce contention issues on data and structures by using an optimal design

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at software developers, software and data architects, and DBAs who are beginning to use the Oracle Database, and want to solve performance problems faster and in a rigorous way. If you are an architect who wants to design fast performing applications, a DBA who is keen to dig into the causes of performance issues, or a developer who wants to learn why and where the application is running slowly this book will provide a good start for your career in performance tuning.