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Oracle Database Problem Solving and Troubleshooting Handbook
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Oracle Database Problem Solving and Troubleshooting Handbook

by Tariq Farooq, Mike Ault, Paulo Portugal, Mohamed Houri, Syed Jaffar Hussain, Jim Czuprynski, Guy Harrison
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
17h 1m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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18. Designing and Monitoring Indexes for Optimal Performance

There is an old saying among carpenters: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.” Likewise, a properly chosen and deployed index can be one of the most flexible and sharpest tools in an Oracle DBA’s toolbox, as long as the DBA realizes that an index is not the only tool that may be appropriate for solving query performance issues.

This chapter discusses the different types of indexes that are available for Oracle databases, as well as each index type’s strengths and weaknesses. This chapter also looks at issues that can typically arise when indexes are misused or overused in an Oracle database and how to detect when this is the case. New features ...

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