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

by Richmond Shee, Kirtikumar Deshpande, K Gopalakrishnan
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 32m
English
McGraw Hill Computing
Content preview from Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning

Why Is Historical Performance Data Important?

A DBA is in his cube waiting for an export job to finish when the developer calls. The developer claims he ran a job around midnight the night before that took two hours when it should have run in about 20 minutes. He wants the DBA to explain why the job ran for so long. When the DBA asks him if he had made any code changes, he quickly says, “No”. However, the DBA is almost certain that he is hiding codes capable of mass destruction. So, the DBA says he doesn’t know the cause of the performance problem and offers to monitor the job if the developer will run it again. Having worked with the developer for a long time, the DBA knows what he is thinking: “First, ask the DBA what’s wrong with the database. ...

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