Introduction
The target audience of this book is the Oracle development team—the group that has 100 percent control of the overall performance of the system. This team includes the data modelers, the developers, and the DBA staff. This is contrary to the popular myth that the DBA is responsible for every aspect of an application’s performance and has complete control over it. The best way to understand the fallacies surrounding this old view is to use the analogy of a car race. The DBA is the pit-stop guy who changes the tires, makes sure the engine is gassed up, and that the car functions. If you give this pit-stop guy (DBA) a Lincoln Navigator (a truly huge truck) and tell him you want to race the Indy 500 with it, what will happen? The DBA ...
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