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Application Tuning Methodology

Database Architecture and Instance

  • Server processes
  • Memory structures (SGA, PGA)
  • Parsing and shared cursors
  • Data files, log files, and parameter files

Execution Plan Analysis

  • Hypothetical execution plans (EXPLAIN PLAN, SQLPlus Autotrace)
  • Actual execution plans (V$SQL_PLAN, AWR)

Performance Monitoring and Identifying Bottlenecks

  • Monitoring instance status in real-time via system dictionary views
  • Monitoring historical data via system views
  • Application tracing (SQL Trace, TkProf, Trace Session)

Optimization Process

  • Cost-based optimization properties and regulation
  • Optimization approaches

Controlling the Cost-Based Optimizer:

  • Session and instance parameters
  • Hints
  • Query plan patterns

Statistics and Histograms

  • Impact of statistics and histograms on performance
  • Methods for collecting statistics and histograms
  • Strategies for counting and estimating statistics
  • Statistics management: blocking, copying, editing, automation of collection, and monitoring changes
  • Dynamic data sampling (temporary tables, complex predicates)
  • Multi-column statistics based on expressions
  • System statistics

Logical and Physical Database Structure

  • Tablespaces
  • Segments
  • Extents
  • Blocks

Data Storage Methods

  • Physical aspects of tables
  • Temporary Tables
  • Index-organized Tables
  • External Tables
  • Partitioned Tables (range, list, hash, mixed)
  • Physical reorganization of tables

Materialized Views and Query Rewrite Mechanism

Data Indexing Methods

  • Building B-TREE indexes
  • Index properties
  • Index types: unique, multi-column, function-based, reverse
  • Compressed indexes
  • Rebuilding and merging indexes
  • Virtual indexes
  • Private and public indexes
  • Bitmap indexes and joins

Case Study: Full Data Scans

  • Impact of placement at the table and block level on read performance
  • Loading data via conventional and direct path methods
  • Order of predicates

Case Study: Index-Based Data Access

  • Index read methods (UNIQUE SCAN, RANGE SCAN, FULL SCAN, FAST FULL SCAN, MIN/MAX SCAN)
  • Using function-based indexes
  • Index selectivity (Clustering Factor)
  • Multi-column indexes and SKIP SCAN
  • NULL values and indexes
  • Index-organized Tables (IOT)
  • Impact of indexes on DML operations

Case Study: Sorting

  • In-memory sorting
  • Index sorting
  • Linguistic sorting
  • Impact of data entropy on sorting (Clustering Factor)

Case Study: Joins and Subqueries

  • Join methods: MERGE, HASH, NESTED LOOP
  • Joins in OLTP and OLAP systems
  • Join order
  • Outer Joins
  • Anti-join
  • Semi-joins
  • Simple subqueries
  • Correlated subqueries
  • Views and the WITH clause

Other Cost-Based Optimizer Operations

  • Buffer Sort
  • INLIST
  • VIEW
  • FILTER
  • Count Stop Key
  • Result Cache

Distributed Queries

  • Reading query plans involving DB links
  • Selecting the driving site

Parallel Processing

Requirements

  • Proficiency in basic SQL and familiarity with the Oracle database environment (preferably having completed Oracle 11g training such as 'Native SQL for Programmers - Workshops')
  • Practical experience working with Oracle
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