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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook
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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

by Ciro Fiorillo
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
11h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Chapter 7. Improving the Oracle Optimizer

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Exploring optimizer hints
  • Collecting statistics
  • Using histograms
  • Managing stored outlines
  • Introducing Adaptive Cursor Sharing for bind variable peeking
  • Creating SQL Tuning Sets
  • Using the SQL Tuning Advisor
  • Configuring and using SQL Baselines

Introduction

In this chapter, we discuss the query optimizer, which is a built-in component of the Oracle database. The optimizer chooses the most efficient way to execute a SQL statement, using three steps:

  1. Query transformation.
  2. Estimation.
  3. Plan generation.

The query transformation step accepts the parsed statement, divides it into query blocks (for example, identifying a subquery), and determines if it's better to transform the query blocks into ...

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