Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning

Introduction

“When the learned discern that the learning, which delights them, also delights the world, they love learning all the more.”

—Kural: 399 Thiruvalluvar

Globalization of businesses creates new competitive landscapes, and the push to be the first to the market often compromises the conventional and proven application and database development paradigms. To gain a competitive edge, businesses leverage the latest computer hardware and storage technologies to capture and analyze a massive amount of data about their customers and spending patterns. This gives rise to very large databases, complex multitiered applications, and needless to say, performance issues. Database administrators are challenged as never before to troubleshoot and resolve ...