Course details
The focus of this tuning course is to illustrate coding techniques that insure a consistent response time between instances and releases of the Oracle database. This course works closely with performance tuning of actual SQL statements as well as covering a variety of Oracle Server tuning topics.
Prerequisites:
A working knowledge of SQL. A knowledge of SQL Explain Plans is helpful but not necessary.
Topics covered:
- How Oracle arrives at an Execution Plan
- Index Review/Index Statistics/How Oracle Selects Indexes
- Advanced problem-solving topics using V$ Table information
- In-depth look at Explain Plans
- SQL Trace/Stats Pack
- PL/SQL Tuning/Profiling
- SQL Troubleshooting/problem solving
Attendees Receive:
- Study guide with presentations and relevant white papers
- Book: Oracle SQL Tuning Pocket Reference by Mark Gurry
- Diskette full of tuning and problem discovery scripts
- Opportunity to ask the tough Oracle questions
- A hands-on opportunity to learn more about Oracle, SQL Developer, Eagle Eye, and TOAD
Day 1: SQL Statement Tuning:
- Oracle RDBMS Architecture overview
- Understanding/Reading/Interpreting Explain Plans
- Understanding the Rule-based Optimizer
- Understanding the Cost-based Optimizer
- Working with Hints
Day 2: SQL Troubleshooting Tips and Techniques:
- Index Review/Tips & Techniques
- A close look at sub-query techniques
- Tuning Tool Review: Statspack, Events, Tracing/Tkprof
- Troubleshooting SQL
- Profiling and tuning PL/SQL
Optional Day 3: SQL Troubleshooting Tips and Techniques (Advanced Topics):
- Oracle Internals: How Oracle writes
- Various Space Management Issues discussed
- Monitoring Sorting
- Finding Problem SQL using v$ information
- Monitoring SQL using V$LongOps
- Tuning the network/Tuning the client
- Troubleshooting SQL
- Tuning by Object Placement
About Dan Hotka:
Dan Hotka is a Training Specialist who has over 30 years in the computer industry and over 25 years of experience with Oracle products. He is an internationally recognized Oracle expert with Oracle experience dating back to the Oracle V4.0 days. Dan’s latest book is the SQL Developer Handbook by Oracle Press. He is also the author of Oracle9i Development By Example and Oracle8i from Scratch by Que and has co-authored 7 other popular books including the Database Oracle10g Linux Administration by Oracle Press. He is frequently published in Oracle trade journals, and regularly speaks at Oracle conferences and user groups around the world.
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