Book: Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN
ISBN: 9781430248095
Publisher: Apress
Year: 2013
Oracle SQL Tuning with SQLTXPLAIN is a practical guide to SQL tuning the way Oracle's own experts do it, using a freely downloadable tool called SQLTXPLAIN. Using this simple tool you'll learn how to tune even the most complex SQL, and you'll learn to do it quickly, without the huge learning curve usually associated with tuning as a whole.
Firmly based in real world problems, this book helps you reclaim system resources and avoid the most common bottleneck in overall performance, badly tuned SQL. You'll learn how the optimizer works, how to take advantage of its latest features, and when it's better to turn them off.
Quickly tune any SQL statement no matter how complex.
Build and tune test cases without affecting production.
Use the latest tuning features with confidence.
What you’ll learn
How and why complex SQL goes wrong
When statistics are crucial and when they are not
How and when the tuning facilities of the database can help or hinder
When to tune and when not to tune
Which steps in an execution plan are crucial to performance
How the optimizer works out the execution plan
Who this book is for
Oracle SQL Tuning with SQLTXPLAIN is ideal for everyone who deals with SQL and SQL tuning. Both developers and DBA's will benefit from learning how to use the SQLTXPLAIN tool along with the problem solving approach described in this book.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to SQLTXPLAIN
2. The Cost-Based Optimizer Environment
3. How Object Statistics Can Make Your Execution Plan Wrong
4. How Skewness Can Make Your Execution Times Variable
5. Troubleshooting Query Transformations
6. Forcing Execution Plans Through Profiles
7. Adaptive Cursor Sharing
8. Dynamic Sampling and Cardinality Feedback
9. Using SQLTXPLAIN with Data Guard Physical Standby Databases
10. Comparing Execution Plans
11. Building Good Test Cases
12. Using XPLORE to Investigate Unexpected Plan Changes
13. Trace Files, TRCANLZR, and Modifying SQLT Behavior
14. Running a Health Check
15. The Final Word
16. Appendix A. Installing SQLTXPLAIN
17. Appendix B. The CBO Parameters (11.2.0.1)
18. Appendix C: Tool Configuration Parameters
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