Oracle Performance Tuning Tools
Monitoring tools overview
Enterprise Manager
V$ Views, Statistics and Metrics
Wait Events

Managing the Automatic Workload Repository Create AWR Snapshots
Oracle Performance Tuning Techniques
Real-Time SQL Monitoring

Defining Problems
Defining the Problem
Limit the Scope & Setting the Priority
Top SQL Reports
Common Tuning Problems & Tuning During the Life Cycle
ADDM Tuning Session
Performance Versus Business Requirements
Performance Tuning Resources & Filing a Performance Service Request
Monitoring and Tuning Tools: Overview

Metrics, Alerts, and Baselines
Limitation of Base Statistics & Typical Delta Tools
Oracle Database 11g Solution: Metrics
Benefits of Metrics
Viewing Metric History Information & using EM to View Metric Details
Statistic Histograms & Histogram Views
Database Control Usage Model & Setting Thresholds
Server-Generated Alerts, Creating and Testing an Alert & Metric and Alert Views

Comparative Performance Analysis with AWR Baselines
Automatic Workload Repository Baselines
Moving Window Baseline
Baselines in Performance Page Settings & Baseline Templates
AWR Baselines & Creating AWR Baselines
Managing Baselines with PL/SQL & Baseline Views
Performance Monitoring and Baselines & Defining Alert Thresholds Using a Static Baseline
Using EM to Quickly Configure & Changing Adaptive Threshold Settings

Automatic Maintenance Tasks
ADDM Performance Monitoring
Active Session History: Overview

What Is a Service? Service Attributes & Service Types
Creating Services & Managing Services in a Single-Instance Environment
Everything Switches to Services.
Using Services with Client Applications & Using Services with the Resource Manager
Services and Resource Manager with EM & Using Services with the Scheduler
Using Services with Parallel Operations & Metric Thresholds
Service Aggregation and Tracing & Service Aggregation Configuration.
Client Identifier Aggregation and Tracing & Service Performance Views

SQL Statement Processing Phases & Role of the Oracle Optimizer
Identifying Bad SQL, Real Time SQL Monitoring & TOP SQL Reports
What Is an Execution Plan? Methods for Viewing Execution Plans & Uses of Execution Plans
DBMS_XPLAN Package: Overview & EXPLAIN PLAN Command
Reading an Execution Plan, Using the V$SQL_PLAN View & Querying the AWR
SQL*Plus AUTOTRACE & SQL Trace Facility
How to Use the SQL Trace Facility
Generate an Optimizer Trace

Functions of the Query Optimizer, Selectivity, Cardinality and Cost & Changing Optimizer Behaviour
Using Hints, Optimizer Statistics & Extended Statistics
Controlling the Behaviour of the Optimizer with Parameters
Enabling Query Optimizer Features & Influencing the Optimizer Approach
Optimising SQL Statements, Access Paths & Choosing an Access Path
Join & Sort Operations
How the Query Optimizer Chooses Execution Plans for Joins
Reducing the Cost

Real Application Testing: Overview & Use Cases
SQL Performance Analyzer: Process & Capturing the SQL Workload
Creating an SQL Performance Analyzer Task & SPA (NF Lesson 9) DBMS_SQLTUNE.CREATE_TUNING_TASK
Optimizer Upgrade Simulation & SQL Performance Analyzer Task Page
Comparison Report & Comparison Report SQL Detail
Tuning Regressing Statements & Preventing Regressions
Parameter Change Analysis & Guided Workflow Analysis
SQL Performance Analyzer: PL/SQL Example & Data Dictionary Views

Maintaining SQL Performance and Optimizer Statistics & Automated Maintenance Tasks
Statistics Gathering Options & Setting Statistic Preferences
Restore Statistics
Deferred Statistics Publishing: Overview & Example
Automatic SQL Tuning: Overview
SQL Tuning Advisor: Overview
Using the SQL Access Advisor
SQL Plan Management: Overview

The Big Picture & System Architecture
Capture & Replay Considerations
Replay Options & Analysis
Database Replay Workflow in Enterprise Manager
Packages and Procedures
Data Dictionary Views: Database Replay
Database Replay: PL/SQL Example
Calibrating Replay Clients

Shared Pool Architecture & Operation
The Library Cache & Latch and Mutex
Diagnostic Tools for Tuning the Shared Pool
Avoiding Hard & Soft Parses
Sizing the Shared Pool & Avoiding Fragmentation
Data Dictionary Cache & SQL Query Result Cache
UGA and Oracle Shared Server
Large Pool & Tuning the Large Pool

Oracle Database Architecture: Buffer Cache
Database Buffers
Buffer Hash Table for Lookups
Working Sets
Buffer Cache Tuning Goals and Techniques
Buffer Cache Performance Symptoms & Solutions
Automatically Tuned Multiblock Reads
Flushing the Buffer Cache (for Testing Only)

SQL Memory Usage & Performance Impact
SQL Memory Manager
Configuring Automatic PGA Memory & Setting PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET Initially
Monitoring & Tuning SQL Memory Usage
PGA Target Advice Statistics & Histograms
Automatic PGA and Enterprise Manager & Automatic PGA and AWR Reports
Temporary Tablespace Management: Overview & Monitoring Temporary Tablespace
Temporary Tablespace Shrink & Tablespace Option for Creating Temporary Table

Oracle Database Architecture, Dynamic SGA & Memory Advisories
Granule & Manually Adding Granules to Components
Increasing the Size of an SGA Component, SGA Sizing Parameters & Manually Resizing Dynamic SGA Parameters
Automatic Shared Memory Management & Memory Broker Architecture
Behaviour of Auto-Tuned & Manually Tuned SGA Parameters
Using the V$PARAMETER View & Resizing SGA_TARGET
Disabling, Configuring & Monitoring Automatic Shared Memory Management (ASMM)
Automatic Memory Management

Space and Extent Management & Locally Managed Extents
How Table Data Is Stored & Anatomy of a Database Block
Minimize Block Visits
The DB_BLOCK_SIZE Parameter
Small & Large Block Size: Considerations
Block Allocation, Free Lists & Block Space Management with Free Lists
Automatic Segment Space Management
Migration and Chaining, Shrinking Segments & Table Compression: Overview

I/O Architecture, File System Characteristics, I/O Modes & Direct I/O
Bandwidth Versus Size & Important I/O Metrics for Oracle Databases
I/O Calibration and Enterprise Manager, I/O Calibration and the PL/SQL Interface & I/O Statistics and Enterprise Manager
Stripe and Mirror Everything
I/O Diagnostics
Database I/O Tuning
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