June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
740 pages
23h 59m
English
CHAPTER 15
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Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization
The optimization of data accesses and joins must be performed before considering the advanced optimization techniques presented in this chapter. In fact, the optimization techniques described here are intended only to further improve performance when it isn’t possible to achieve it otherwise. In other words, you should fix the basics first, and then, if the performance is still not acceptable, you can consider special means.
This chapter describes how materialized views, result caches, parallel processing, direct-path inserts, row prefetching, and the array interface work and how they can be ...