Oracle 10g Database: Performance Tuning Course

This Oracle 10g courseware training guide book will equip database administrators to recognize, diagnose and remedy performance problems which might arise in the operation of the Oracle database server. Beyond reactive measures, proactive actions which can be taken to avoid performance issues before they arise or are recognized are also considered. This course goes beyond basic automatic tuning techniques discussed elsewhere within our database administrator curriculum and covers the whole range of tuning issues, including manual database tuning techniques, host system tuning, network and listener tuning, and others.

The target audience for this course is Oracle database administrators and data center support engineers and consultants. Additionally, senior database developers will benefit from an understanding of the architecture of the Oracle database with which they interface.

Topics covered on the 5 day Oracle 10g Database: Performance Tuning course

COURSE INTRODUCTION

PERFORMANCE TUNING OVERVIEW

• DATABASE PERFORMANCE TUNING CONTEXT
• THE DATABASE INSTANCE TUNING METHODOLOGY

STATISTICS & WAIT EVENTS

• ABOUT THE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE VIEWS
• EXAMINING THE STATISTICS
• INTERPRETING THE STATISTICS

USING STATSPACK

• INSTALL THE STATSPACK UTILITY
• CREATE STATSPACK SNAPSHOTS
• GENERATE STATSPACK REPORTS
• IDENTIFY THE REPORT SECTIONS

AUTOMATIC TUNING & AWR

• ABOUT THE MANAGEMENT & ADVISORY FRAMEWORK
• MANAGING THE AUTOMATIC WORKLOAD REPOSITORY
• ABOUT THE ACTIVE SESSION HISTORY (ASH)
• AUTOMATIC DATABASE DIAGNOSTIC MONITOR
• MANAGING SNAPSHOTS
• CREATE_BASELINE() & DROP_BASELINE()
• CREATE_SNAPSHOT() & DROP_SNAPSHOT_RANGE()

METRICS, ALERTS & BASELINES

• METRICS & ALERT THRESHOLDS
• MANAGING METRICS
• MANAGING ALERTS
• USE EM REAL-TIME MONITORS

TUNING MEMORY: THE SHARED POOL

• MORE ABOUT THE SHARED POOL
• DIAGNOSE SHARED POOL PROBLEMS
• KEEP OBJECTS IN THE SHARED POOL

TUNING MEMORY: THE BUFFER CACHE

• MORE ABOUT THE BUFFER CACHE
• REMEDY PERFORMANCE ISSUES

TUNING MEMORY: AUTOMATIC SHARED MEMORY

• AUTOMATIC SHARED MEMORY MANAGEMENT
• USING EM & THE MEMORY ADVISORS

TUNING I/O: CHECKPOINT & REDO TUNING

• TUNE REDO WRITING & ARCHIVING
• MTTR ADVISOR & TUNING CHECKPOINTS
• LOG_CHECKPOINTS_TO_ALERT
• ADDITIONAL REDO TUNING OPTIONS

TUNING I/O: DATABASE WRITES

SPACE TUNING: PGA & TEMPORARY SPACE

• PGA MEMORY MANAGEMENT
• TEMPORARY SPACE MANAGEMENT

SPACE TUNING: BLOCK SPACE USAGE

• USING THE SHRINK SPACE OPTION
• USING THE SEGMENT ADVISOR