Troubleshooting Oracle Performance

by Christian Antognini

Overview

Now available in paperback—

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430242963
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/23/2011
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

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 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).

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations

1. Performance Problems

2. Key Concepts

Part II: Identification

3. Analysis of Reproducible Problems

4. Real-Time Analysis of Irreproducible Problems

5. Postmortem Analysis of Irreproducible Problems

Part III: Query Optimizer

6. Introducing the Query Optimizer

7. System Statistics

8. Object Statistics

9. Configuring the Query Optimizer

10. Execution Plans

Part IV: Optimization

11. SQL Tuning Techniques

12. Parsing

13. Optimizing Data Access

14. Optimizing Joins

15. Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization

16. Optimizing the Physical Design

Appendix A