Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning

1. Front Matter

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2. Methodology

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 1-19

3. Capacity Planning and Architecture

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 21-54

4. Testing for Availability

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 55-85

5. Testing for Scalability

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 87-110

6. Real Application Testing

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 111-143

7. Tools and Utilities

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 145-199

8. SQL Tuning

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 201-234

9. Parallel Query Tuning

   • Murali Vallath

   Pages 235-275

10. Tuning the Database

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 277-318

11. Tuning Recovery

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 319-337

12. Tuning Oracle Net

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 339-353

13. Tuning the Storage Subsystem

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 355-385

14. Tuning Global Cache

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 387-449

15. Tuning the Cluster Interconnect

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 451-493

16. Optimize Distributed Workload

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 495-543

17. Oracle Clusterware Diagnosis

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 545-583

18. Waits, Enqueues, and Latches

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 585-614

19. Problem Diagnosis

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 615-652

20. The SQL Scripts Used in This Book

    • Murali Vallath

    Pages 653-659

Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles for testing and tuning RAC databases. The book takes a deep look at optimizing RAC databases by following a methodical approach based on scientific analysis rather than using a speculative approach, twisting and turning knobs and gambling on the system.

The book starts with the basic concepts of tuning methodology, capacity planning, and architecture. Author Murali Vallath then dissects the various tiers of the testing implementation, including the operating system, the network, the application, the storage, the instance, the database, and the grid infrastructure. He also introduces tools for performance optimization and thoroughly covers each aspect of the tuning process, using many real-world examples, analyses, and solutions from the field that provide you with a solid, practical, and replicable approach to tuning a RAC environment. The book concludes with troubleshooting guidance and quick reference of all the scripts used in the book.

Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning covers scenarios and details never discussed before in any other performance tuning books. If you have a RAC database, this book is a requirement. Get your copy today.

• Takes you through optimizing the various tiers of the RAC environment.
• Provides real life case studies, analysis and solutions from the field.
• Maps a methodical approach to testing, tuning and diagnosing the cluster

Vallath has more than 26 years of IT experience including over 20 years using Oracle products. Vallath is an Oracle ACE Director and president of All India Oracle Users Group (www.aioug.org). He has worked on a variety of database platforms for small to very large implementations, designing databases for high volume, machine critical, real time OLTP systems. His expertise is with Oracle RAC. Vallath released his second book titled Oracle 10g RAC, Grid, Services and Clustering in March 2006 and has co-authored his third book titled Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) November 2007, from Oracle Press. Vallath currently provides independent consulting services in the areas of capacity planning, high availability solutions and performance tuning of Oracle environments through Summersky Enterprises (www.summersky.biz) with operations in USA and India. He has successfully completed over 100 successful small, medium and terabyte sized RAC implementations for reputed corporate firms. His recent experiences are with archiving historical data for datamarts on Exadata servers. Vallath is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including the Oracle Open World, AIOUG and others on Oracle RAC and Oracle RDBMS Performance and Tuning related topics. Vallath blogs at www.muralivallath.com.

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