Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) [Paperback]

Richmond Shee (Author), Kirtikumar Deshpande (Author), K. Gopalakrishnan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007222729X | ISBN-13: 978-0072227291 | Publication Date: June 9, 2004 | Edition: 1st

Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially.

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Identify and Resolve System Bottlenecks Quickly

Troubleshoot, diagnose, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This exclusive Oracle Press guide explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface (OWI) to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially. Get extensive details on all the OWI features, including the wait event views, their applications, and the extended SQL trace file. This invaluable resource will help you maximize the most advanced diagnostics tool available and minimize processing time.

• Identify performance problems using wait event statistics
• Monitor session-level wait events and collect historical data for root cause analysis
• Interpret common I/O-related wait events
• Diagnose and solve problems related to locking and serialization
• Analyze latency-related wait events
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the Oracle Real Application Clusters environment
• Learn about the Oracle Database 10g revolutionary approach to performance diagnostics and tuning

About the Author

Richmond Shee (Olathe, KS) is a Senior Database Architect for Sprint Corporation, with more than 14 years of RDBMS experience, including 8 years working with Oracle databases. Richmond has also spent 2 years working with the Oracle Core Technology Group. He oversees the Performance Consultation Team, mentors DBAs and helps set the direction for implementing Oracle RDBMS technology throughout the company. Richmond leads the tuning efforts on all of Sprint’s most critical databases. Among his many accomplishments, he pioneered the use of the Oracle Wait Interface at Sprint. He also invented a patent-pending wait-based tuning tool. This tool is being deployed throughout Sprint Corporation & Sprint PCS. He frequently speaks at the Kansas City OUG, contributes to the Oracle-L listserver, and volunteers his time by mentoring DBAs in the Kansas City area.

Kirtikumar Deshpande (Kirti Deshpande) has been working in the Information Technology field for over 20 years, including more than seven years as an Oracle DBA. Although a Biomedical Engineer by profession, he has chosen Information Technology as his career. He currently works with Verizon Information Services as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator and is a frequent contributor on the Oracle-L and LazyDBA listservers. He can be reached at kirti_deshpande64hotmail.com.

K. Gopalakrishnan (Gopal) (Redwood Shores, CA) is an award-winning coauthor ("Oracle Author of the year 2005"-Oracle Magazine) of Oracle Wait Interface (Oracle Press). He also authored Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters also from Oracle Press (Nov 2006). He has published articles in various international Magazines and is recognized as one of the leading database performance tuning experts in the world. Oracle Technology Network also recognizes him as an Oracle ACE. Gopal has worked with several of the biggest and busiest databases on the planet and has deep experience in the performance management and tuning of very large online transactional databases.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1st edition (June 9, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007222729X
• ISBN-13: 978-0072227291
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #754,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like YAPP, just get it!, January 10, 2005

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Jan M. Vanmourik "Oracle performance specialist" (Houston, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) (Paperback)

if you're into the whole wait event thang, get this book. This is a great resource. Very interesting reading! Chapter 4 presents an event data collector (page 86: Sampling for performance data using pl/sql procedure), a very nice idea. The logoff trigger discussed in the same chapter is nice too. Chapter 5 gives a good overview of some of the most important I/O related wait events. Chapter 6, Locks and latches. Chapter 7, latency related wait events. And then there's tons more, look inside the book and see what I mean...
All in all, this is one of the best Oracle books of the past six months. My other favorite would be 'Oracle Insights' from Oaktable press.

I've implemented the data collector mentioned inchapter 4 to diagnose some performance problems. If you're interested, you can download the code for free from my website, www rhdba dot com. Look under Oracle SQL Scripts -> Event data collector.

Other must have books:
- Tom Kyte's 'Expert one-on-one' and 'Effective Oracle by Design'
- Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt 'Optimizing Oracle Performance'
- Oaktable press 'Oracle Insights'

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OWI explained as it should be, November 22, 2004

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Nuno P. Souto "Nuno Souto" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) (Paperback)

A lot of people have been talking about monitoring and tuning using the "wait interface". There are too many sites around with bits and pieces of the necessary information, but up until now there wasn't a complete source on the subject.

Having used Oracle since 1984, I have read just about every advanced book on Oracle databases. This one is right at the top of the list for anyone wanting to learn how to accurately monitor and tune Oracle databases.

Here at last is a single, complete and authoritative reference for all to use. And what I like the best: it is not restricted to a single version of Oracle. Simply the best reference right now.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authoratative landmark work on Oracle internals, October 23, 2004

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Tim Gorman (Evergreen, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) (Paperback)

The book is simply spectacular, both for the quality of its writing as well as the depth of the material. Practical? Indeed, indispensible!

The three authors, Richmond Shee, Kirti Deshpande, and K Gopalakrishnan, have done a wonderful job in organizing a enormous subject area into manageable chunks. They have also managed to render potentially bone-dry source material into very readable text, interspersed heavily with code examples and output, sidebars, and analogies. This is a good read as well as an authoritative reference. I'm still unable to read it steadily for long periods of time, as the analogy of trying to drink from a fire-hose is relevant here. But picking it up and reading different sections, treating it like a reference, has proved rewarding. Richmond, Kirti, and K had an absolute "dream team" of reviewers on this book in Kyle Hailey, John Kanagaraj, Craig Shallahamer, and Graham Wood. The combined efforts of the three authors and the four technical editors blows my mind.

All I can say is - get it! You may (like me) not read it immediately. But, keep it handy. Along with the Google, Ixora, Asktom, JLComp, MetaLink websites, this book is the place to find explanation for the unexplainable in Oracle. Start skimming through it and recognize situations that had previously baffled now being explained (and proved) in full. It is like a light coming on.