If you are constantly under time pressure from SLAs or product release deadlines, then pick up a copy of Pro Oracle 10g Performance Tuning. This practical field guide will help you diagnose and resolve common, everyday problems such as poorly performing SQL queries, database and session hang, and sudden slow performance of a production database.
Author Soumendra Paik includes comprehensive demos of the Oracle performance diagnostic toolkit. You will learn to identify and analyze a performance bottleneck, isolate the root cause, apply different possible resolutions, and then quantify performance improvements&emdash;all in a quick and effective manner.
