The key to successful tuning with SQLT is to use SQLT regularly and for real-life problems. If you’ve reached the final chapter, you should now consider yourself a card-carrying member of the SQLT supporters club. You’ve learned a lot about what SQLT can do, and along the way you’ve probably learned some things about the cost-based optimizer and the Oracle engine.
In my day-to-day interactions with DBAs and developers around the world, I regularly come across interesting and sometimes puzzling problems. Whether these are strange partition behaviors, ...