Before we begin Chapter 1, let me introduce you to Part I of this book.
As discussed in the Introduction, all of the current practices I’m aware of that are typically used for performance tuning can be grouped into a category that I call a small model approach. The small model approach includes a variety of methods that I also refer to as traditional methods because they represent the way tuning has been accomplished since Oracle began instrumenting and exposing performance metrics. The amount of data available to tuners has increased greatly, but the methods for examining ...
