Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK

Take Full Advantage of the Oracle STATSPACK Utility

Make Oracle STATSPACK the backbone of a fail-safe Oracle tuning environment. Officially authorized by Oracle Corporation, Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK explains how to use this versatile tool to capture, analyze, and report on your database as well as how to monitor, tune, and optimize system performance. Inside, database expert Don Burleson explains everything from installing and configuring STATSPACK for peak performance to performing trend analysis with STATSPACK data. You'll also get ready-to-run scripts throughout the book.

• Extend STATSPACK to collect server statistics into Oracle tables
• Tune the server environment, including the CPU and RAM
• Optimize Oracle Net8 configuration
• Monitor and tune the disk I/O subsystem
• Detect and correct instance performance problems
• Manage Oracle9i RAM allocation with new V$ views
• Tune Oracle tables and indexes
• Locate and tune SQL statements
• Tune with Oracle Parallel Query and Oracle parallel DML
• Tune Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

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Explains how to use the Oracle STATSPACK utility to proactively monitor and tune a database by looking at historical trends and performance patterns. The author progressively walks through tuning the Oracle server environment, the global parameters that affect the Oracle database, individual table and indexes within the database, and individual SQL queries. Modified scripts for reading data from the STATSPACK tables and creating reports are provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)