Oracle Database 11g: Performance Tuning DBA Release 2 (CO-50317)

Course details

Introduction

This five-day instructor-led course will teach students the steps a DBA will perform to acquire the information needed to identify problem areas, to diagnose common problems, and remedy those problems. The methodology used in the practices is primarily reactive. After configuring monitoring tools, and reviewing the available reports, the student will be presented with the Oracle architecture based on the SQL statement processing of SELECT and DML.

The SQL tuning section assumes that the DBA has little or no ability to change the code. The DBA will influence the SQL performance with available tools. The DBA will be introduced to various methods of identifying the SQL statements that require tuning, and the diagnostic tools needed to find ways to change the performance. This will include the use of statistics, outlines, and profiles to influence the optimizer, adding and rebuilding indexes, and using the SQL Advisors. A major task of DBA's is to maintain SQL performance across changes. This course introduces the DB Replay, and SQL Performance Analyzer tools to help the DBA test and minimize the impact of change.

Course Content

• Lesson 1: Introduction
• Lesson 2: Basic Tuning Diagnostics
• Lesson 3: Using the Automatic Workload Repository
• Lesson 4: Defining Problems
• Lesson 5: Using Metrics and Alerts
• Lesson 6: Using Baselines
• Lesson 7: Using AWR-Based Tools
• Lesson 8: Monitoring Applications
• Lesson 9: Identifying Problem SQL Statements
• Lesson 10: Influencing the Optimizer
• Lesson 11: Reducing the Cost
• Lesson 12: Using SQL Performance Analyzer
• Lesson 13: SQL Performance Management
• Lesson 14: Using Database Replay
• Lesson 15: Tuning the Shared Pool
• Lesson 16: Tuning the Buffer Cache
• Lesson 17: Tuning PGA and Temporary Space
• Lesson 18: Automatic Memory Management
• Lesson 19: Tuning I/O
• Lesson 20: Performance Tuning Summary