Expert Indexing in Oracle Database 11g: Maximum Performance for Your Database
by Darl Kuhn, Sam R. Alapati, Bill Padfield
Summary
The SQL Tuning Advisor is a flexible tool that provides performance tuning advice regarding indexes, SQL profiles, statistics, restructuring queries, and so on. Because this tool generates advice regarding indexes, we felt it was appropriate to cover the use of the SQL Tuning Advisor in this book.
One key input to the SQL Tuning Advisor is through SQL tuning sets. Therefore, we also covered the management of SQL tuning sets in this chapter. Briefly, a SQL tuning set is a collection of one or more SQL statements and the associated execution metrics. You can populate a SQL tuning set either from high resource SQL in the AWR or in memory.
The SQL Tuning Advisor can be invoked from the DBMS_SQLTUNE PL/SQL package, SQL Developer, or Enterprise ...
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