High-Performance Oracle Database Applications

* High Performance Oracle Database Applications provides everything an Oracle professional needs to know to ensure high-quality, high-performance databases. Packed with useful real-world examples, this book will optimize the user's efforts by focusing on the handful of tuning techniques that will provide the maximum benefit. Unlike other books on Oracle performance and tuning, High Performance Oracle Database Applications explains the complex internals of the Oracle engine in simple, easy-to-understand terms, and gives the reader immediate insight into how Oracle manages data. * Teaches how table design techniques can be used to maximize Oracle performance. * Exposes the internal mechanisms of Oracle. * Provides pretested performance scripts to get immediate performance information. * Offers expert advice on interpreting Oracle performance information. * Shows how to quickly implement performance and tuning data collection without buying expensive tools. * A complete performance and tuning toolkit that will save hundreds of hours of work * Software to run performance and tuning scripts immediately on any Oracle database * Software that enables quick interpretation of all performance information * Demo of BMC's Patrol, the world's leading Oracle performance monitor