Chapter 1. Oracle Performance Tuning: A Methodical Approach
Oracle performance tuning has come a long way over the years, but it is too often still approached in a haphazard or inefficient manner. Consider the following cautionary tale:
A mission-critical application system is experiencing unsatisfactory performance. As an experienced Oracle performance specialist, you are called in to diagnose the problem. The first - you do is examine the database wait times to see where the database is spending the majority of execution time. As we’ll see later, this information can easily be found by looking in the V$SYSTEM_EVENT and V$SYS_TIME_MODEL views.
Looking at these views, two things stand out. First, the vast majority of database time is spent reading ...
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