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Performance Tuning Oracle and RAC on Windows

Overview

This class is designed for the DBA, system administrator, developer, or technical consultant who wishes to learn how to tune Oracle databases on Microsoft Windows operating systems for maximum performance. Students will become proficient in all aspects of Oracle database performance tuning. This includes database and instance tuning and SQL tuning. The hardware and software interactions that affect Oracle database performance are also covered in this course and include tuning the operating system, Oracle I/O, and storage area networks. Hands-on lab exercises will be used to reinforce key Oracle performance tuning concepts.

Course Objectives

This course is designed to provide instruction in all aspects of tuning Oracle performance on the Microsoft Windows operatiing system on a storage area network.

At the end of this course, students will gain knowledge in the following topics:

  • Plan an Oracle database installation for optimum performance
  • Identify performance bottlenecks at the hardware, OS, database, instance, and application levels
  • Monitor database performance using Oracle Enterprise Manager or Statspack
  • Diagnose performance problems with Oracle tools
  • Perform tuning tasks with Oracle Enterprise Manager and the command line
  • Configure Microsoft Windows tuning parameters for optimum performance
  • Identify and resolve I/O, data storage and database configuration problems
  • Control resource usage with Resource Manager
  • Use the diagnostic tools to gather information about SQL statement processing

Course Agenda

  • Overview of Oracle Database Performance Tuning
  • Defining an Effective Tuning Strategy
  • Microsoft Windows Configuration and Tuning for Oracle
  • Tuning SAN I/O for Oracle
  • Diagnostic and Tuning Tools
  • Tuning the Shared Pool
  • Tuning the Buffer Cache
  • Dynamic Instance Resizing
  • Sizing Other SGA Structures
  • Tuning the Oracle Shared Server
  • Optimizing Sort Operations
  • Using Resource Manager
  • SQL Statement Tuning
  • Optimizer Operations
  • Managing Statistics
  • Using Oracle Blocks Efficiently
  • Using Oracle Data Storage Structures Efficiently
  • Tuning Indexes
  • Application Tuning
  • Using Materialized Views
  • Monitoring and Detecting Lock Contention
  • Introduction to Oracle RAC
  • Oracle RAC Performance Tuning
  • Using the Oracle Parallel Query Option

Prerequisites

Successful completion of an Oracle Database Administration class and previous Oracle SQL training is recommended.

Lab Work

This course includes hands-on labs and workshops where the student can become familiar with performance tuning on live Oracle databases.

Delivery

For more information about scheduling this course or other offerings, please call us at: 1 (800) 887-4513, or e-mail us at: 		 
 

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