Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

Changes in This Release for Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide

Part I Database Performance Fundamentals

1 Performance Tuning Overview

2 Designing and Developing for Performance

3 Performance Improvement Methods

4 Configuring a Database for Performance

Part II Diagnosing and Tuning Database Performance

5 Measuring Database Performance

6 Gathering Database Statistics

7 Automatic Performance Diagnostics

8 Comparing Database Performance Over Time

9 Analyzing Sampled Data

10 Instance Tuning Using Performance Views

Part III Tuning Database Memory

11 Database Memory Allocation

12 Tuning the System Global Area

13 Tuning the Database Buffer Cache

14 Tuning the Shared Pool and the Large Pool

15 Tuning the Result Cache

16 Tuning the Program Global Area

Part IV Managing System Resources

17 I/O Configuration and Design

18 Managing Operating System Resources

Index