Your Oracle career starts here! Ideal for those new to Oracle technology, this officially authorized guide teaches new DBAs the essentials of keeping an Oracle database running at top performance. You'll get coverage of application, instance, database, I/O, OS, and contention tuning.
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha is currently the Director of Storage Management Products at Quest Software, Inc., providing technical and strategic direction for the storage management product line. He has more than ten years of technical expertise, with over nine years of industry experience working with Oracle systems. Prior to joining Quest, Gaja worked as a Technical Manager at Andersen Consulting, where he specialized in Oracle Systems Performance Management and lead the Oracle Performance Management SWAT Team within the Technology Product Services Group. In a prior life, Gaja was also a Consultant and Instructor at Oracle Corporation specializing in the core technologies of Oracle. His key areas of interests include performance architectures, scalable storage solutions, highly available systems, and system performance management for data warehouses and transactional systems. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has presented many papers at various regional, national and international Oracle conferences and is currently in the faculty of the IOUG-A Master Class University. He is also a contributor to the Oracle-L listserver and can be reached at gajav64yahoo.com.
Your Oracle career starts here! Ideal for those new to Oracle technology, this officially authorized guide teaches new DBAs the essentials of keeping an Oracle database running at top performance. You'll get coverage of application, instance, database, I/O, OS, and contention tuning.
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha is currently the Director of Storage Management Products at Quest Software, Inc., providing technical and strategic direction for the storage management product line. He has more than ten years of technical expertise, with over nine years of industry experience working with Oracle systems. Prior to joining Quest, Gaja worked as a Technical Manager at Andersen Consulting, where he specialized in Oracle Systems Performance Management and lead the Oracle Performance Management SWAT Team within the Technology Product Services Group. In a prior life, Gaja was also a Consultant and Instructor at Oracle Corporation specializing in the core technologies of Oracle. His key areas of interests include performance architectures, scalable storage solutions, highly available systems, and system performance management for data warehouses and transactional systems. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has presented many papers at various regional, national and international Oracle conferences and is currently in the faculty of the IOUG-A Master Class University. He is also a contributor to the Oracle-L listserver and can be reached at gajav64yahoo.com.
Part I: The Method. Chapter 1: Introduction to Oracle Peformance Management. Chapter 2: The Method Behind the Madness. Part II: Application Tuning. Chapter 3: Application Tuning: Issues that Concern a DBA. Chapter 4: Application Tuning: Tracking Down Bad SQL. Part III: Instance and Database Tuning. Chapter 5: Instance Tuning: The Shared Pool Area. Chapter 6: Instance Tuning: The Database Buffer Cache. Chapter 7: Instance Tuning: The Redo Log Buffer & Miscellaneous Tuning. Chapter 8: Database Tuning. Part IV: Specialized Tuning. Chapter 9: Parallel Query Tuning. Chapter 10: Contention Tuning. Part V: Environment Tuning. Chapter 11: I/O Tuning. Chapter 12: Operating System Tuning. Chapter 13: Wrapping It Up. Part VI: Appendixes: Appendix A: Glossary. Appendix B: More Tips & Resources. Appendix C: References.
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha is currently the Director of Storage
Management Products at Quest Software, Inc., providing technical
and strategic direction for the storage management product line. He
has more than ten years of technical expertise, with over nine
years of industry experience working with Oracle systems. Prior to
joining Quest, Gaja worked as a Technical Manager at Andersen
Consulting, where he specialized in Oracle Systems Performance
Management and lead the Oracle Performance Management SWAT Team
within the Technology Product Services Group. In a prior life, Gaja
was also a Consultant and Instructor at Oracle Corporation
specializing in the core technologies of Oracle. His key areas of
interests include performance architectures, scalable storage
solutions, highly available systems, and system performance
management for data warehouses and transactional systems. He holds
a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State
University, Ohio. He has presented many papers at various regional,
national and international Oracle conferences and is currently in
the faculty of the IOUG-A Master Class University. He is also a
contributor to the Oracle-L listserver and can be reached at
gajav64yahoo.com.
Kirtikumar Deshpande (Kirti Deshpande) has been working in the
Information Technology field for over 20 years, including more than
seven years as an Oracle DBA. Although a Biomedical Engineer by
profession, he has chosen Information Technology as his career. He
currently works with Verizon Information Services as a Senior
Oracle Database Administrator and is a frequent contributor on the
Oracle-L and LazyDBA listservers. He can be reached at
kirti_deshpande64hotmail.com.
John A. Kostelac, Jr. is an Oracle database administration
consultant and operates an information technology consulting firm.
He specializes in performance and recovery issues for Oracle
databases. Additionally, he is experienced in every phase of
modeling, design and implementation of Oracle databases for a
variety of applications. John can be reached by e-mail at
john@winningstaff.com
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