Preface
People use databases to organize and to manage their data. Oracle Database is the leader in the relational database management systems market, with a broad adoption in many industries. Using the best tool is not enough to be sure that the results of our efforts will be satisfactory—driving the fastest car in a Formula 1 competition, though better than driving the slowest, doesn’t guarantee the first place at the checkered flag.
Every developer—and every manager—knows that applications have to be responsive, because users hate to spend their time waiting for a transaction to end, looking at an hourglass. To meet this goal, it’s important to adopt a correct tuning strategy, which starts at the same time as the application design, then moves ...
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