This preface contains the following topics:
This guide is intended for Oracle database administrators (DBAs) who want to tune and optimize the performance of Oracle Database. Before using this document, you should be familiar with Oracle Database administration.
In particular, this guide is targeted toward the following groups of users:
Oracle DBAs who want to acquire database performance tuning skills
DBAs who are new to Oracle Database
See Also:
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide for more information about database administration
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