Troubleshooting Oracle Performance

1. Front Matter

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2. Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Performance Problems

      Pages 3-12

   3. Key Concepts

      Pages 13-32

3. Identification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Identifying Performance Problems

      Pages 35-106

4. Query Optimizer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-108

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   2. System and Object Statistics

      Pages 109-167

   3. Configuring the Query Optimizer

      Pages 169-193

   4. Execution Plans

      Pages 195-245

   5. SQL Tuning Techniques

      Pages 247-305

5. Optimization

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Parsing

      Pages 309-338

   3. Optimizing Data Access

      Pages 339-408

   4. Optimizing Joins

      Pages 409-457

   5. Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization

      Pages 459-526

   6. Optimizing the Physical Design

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6. Back Matter

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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 requirement

• Oracle
• SQL
• database
• performance
• software

Since 1995, Christian Antognini has been focusing on understanding how the Oracle database engine works. His main interests range from logical and physical database design, to the integration of databases with Java applications, the query optimizer, and basically everything else related to performance management and tuning. He is working as a senior consultant and trainer at Trivadis AG in Z rich, Switzerland. If he is not helping one of his customers to get the most out of Oracle, he is somewhere lecturing on optimization or new Oracle database features for developers. He is member of the Trivadis Performance Team and of the OakTable Network).

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