Troubleshooting Oracle Performance

Hardcover: 616 pages
Publisher: Apress (July 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590599179
ISBN-13: 978-1590599174

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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

What you’ll learn

See how to treat and plan for performance as a basic application requirement.
Identify performance problems using a systematic and repeatable approach.
Configure your query optimizer to meet your application performance goals.
Optimize table accesses, joins, and physical table layout.
Read and recognize inefficient SQL execution plans.
Reduce inefficiencies from too much procedural code.

Who this book is for
For application developers and database administrators involved in troubleshooting performance problems of Oracle-based applications