August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
594 pages
15h 54m
English
Optimizing the memory you allocate to an Oracle database is one of the most critical tasks you need to perform as a DBA. Over the years, Oracle DBAs were used to spending vast amounts of their time analyzing memory usage by the database and trying to come up with the best possible allocation of memory. In Oracle Database 11g, the burden of allocating Oracle's memory is shifted almost completely to the database itself. This chapter shows you how to take advantage of Oracle's automatic memory management feature, so you can leave the database to optimize memory usage, while you focus on more important matters.
This chapter starts off by explaining how to set up automatic memory management for a database. ...