July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
23h 12m
English
John Beresniewicz
The Oracle buffer cache is critical to obtaining optimal database performance. Prior to Oracle8, there were few tuning options for the buffer cache, other than assigning buffers using the DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS initialization parameter. In most cases, the LRU algorithm governing the buffer cache works quite well; no other tuning is required. However, certain data access patterns have been identified that could benefit from alternative buffer aging algorithms. Oracle8 allows the buffer cache to be divided into as many as three separate buffer pools to accommodate multiple cache management strategies and assignment of objects to specific buffer pools. These new ...
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