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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

By : Ciro Fiorillo
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Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

By: Ciro Fiorillo

Overview of this book

Oracle's Database offers great performance, scalability, and many features for DBAs and developers. Due to a wide choice of technologies, successful applications are good candidates to run into performance issues and when a problem arises it's very difficult to identify the cause and the right solution to the problem. The Oracle Database 11g R2 Performance Tuning Cookbook helps DBAs and developers to understand every aspect of Oracle Database that can affect performance. You will be guided through implementing the correct solution in a proactive way before problems arise, and how to diagnose issues on your Oracle database-based solutions. This fast-paced book offers solutions starting from application design and development, through the implementation of well-performing applications, to the details of deployment and delivering best-performance databases. With this book you will quickly learn to apply the right methodology to tune the performance of an Oracle Database, and to optimize application design and SQL and PL/SQL code. By following the real-world examples you will see how to store your data in correct structures and access and manipulate them at a lightning speed. You will learn to speed up sort operations, hack the optimizer and the data loading process, and diagnose and tune memory, I/O, and contention issues. The purpose of this cookbook is to provide concise recipes, which will help you to build and maintain a very high-speed Oracle Database environment.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring and using SQL Baselines


We have seen the importance of execution plan stability in Managing stored outlines.

The disadvantage (by design) of using stored outlines is in the rigidity—we are sure that our execution plans don't change—so the performance doesn't deteriorate. However, due to schema or data changes, there could be a better execution plan. We are bound to our execution plan that is stored in the outlines, and we cannot benefit from the improvements.

SQL Plan Management with SQL Plan Baselines, a feature new to Oracle Database 11g, helps us in obtaining planning stability without losing the opportunity for performance improvements.

Getting ready

To create SQL Baselines we need the ADMINISTER SQL MANAGEMENT OBJECT privilege.

Connect as SYSDBA and grant permission to the user SH:

CONNECT / AS SYSDBA
GRANT ADMINISTER SQL MANAGEMENT OBJECT TO SH;

How to do it...

The following steps will show how to configure and use SQL Baselines:

  1. Connect to the SH schema:

    CONNECT sh@TESTDB/sh...