August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1472 pages
38h
English

The primary goal of designing database applications is to return the correct results as quickly as possible. Application developers spend countless hours trying to write efficient SQL code, and Oracle DBAs tune the database memory structures to provide efficient access to the data and index blocks needed to satisfy the queries.
Tuning an application normally involves finding the best path to touch the least amount of data and/or index blocks in the Oracle database buffer cache. Accessing data in memory is always much faster than accessing data from disk. Oracle uses ...
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