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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 is this book for?

For application developers and database administrators involved in troubleshooting performance problems of Oracle-based applications

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Table of Contents

Forewords
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewers
Acknowledgments
Introduction
About the OakTable Network
PART 1 Foundations
Chapter 1 Performance Problems
Chapter 2 Key Concepts
PART 2 Identification
Chapter 3 Identifying Performance Problems
PART 3 Query Optimizer
Chapter 4 System and Object Statistics
Chapter 5 Configuring the Query Optimizer
Chapter 6 Execution Plans
Chapter 7 SQL Tuning Techniques
PART 4 Optimization
Chapter 8 Parsing
Chapter 9 Optimizing Data Access
Chapter 10 Optimizing Joins
Chapter 11 Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization
Chapter 12 Optimizing the Physical Design
PART 5 Appendixes
Appendix A Downloadable Files
Appendix B Bibliography
Index

About the Author

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 currently working as a senior consultant and trainer at Trivadis AG (http://www.trivadis.com) in Zürich, 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 (http://oaktable.net).

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